Work & commute · Ashville

Work & commute in Ashville, AL

Most working residents leave Ashville for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (11%), Gadsden (7%) and Trussville (4%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

60 of 836 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 776 Ashville residents head out of town to work, 60 work right here, and 1,244 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ashville.

776live here, work elsewhere

60live and work here

1,244work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ashville goes to work

Birmingham37 mi away

11%96

Ashville (in town)right here

7%60

Gadsden18.8 mi away

7%60

Trussville20.9 mi away

4%31

Hoover44.4 mi away

4%31

Pell City19 mi away

3%26

Steele8.6 mi away

2%20

Moody20.5 mi away

2%19

Huntsville63.9 mi away

2%18

Irondale30.3 mi away

2%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%458

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Ashville commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

13%

28%

39%

20%

13%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

39%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ashville is a job hub

1.56jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Ashville are

1,304 jobs are based in Ashville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ashville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Ashville

1,304 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Ashville residents hold

836 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+20%

Jobs based in Ashville, 2013 → 2023: 1,083 → 1,304. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.