Work & commute · Bon Secour

Work & commute in Bon Secour, AL

Most working residents leave Bon Secour for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Foley (21%), Gulf Shores (13%) and Orange Beach (11%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4 of 694 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 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 690 Bon Secour residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 204 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bon Secour.

690live here, work elsewhere

4live and work here

204work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bon Secour goes to work

Foley6.4 mi away

21%146

Gulf Shores3.1 mi away

13%91

Orange Beach7.9 mi away

11%75

Mobile33.3 mi away

7%51

Fairhope16.8 mi away

4%28

Robertsdale16.6 mi away

3%18

Daphne23 mi away

2%14

Bay Minette39.8 mi away

2%12

Montgomery164.5 mi away

2%12

Magnolia Springs6.6 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%239

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

How far

How far Bon Secour commutes

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

50%

20%

17%

13%

50%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bon Secour is a commuter town

0.30jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Bon Secour are

208 jobs are based in Bon Secour. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bon Secour’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bon Secour

208 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Bon Secour residents hold

694 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

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Jobs based in Bon Secour, 2013 → 2023: 208 → 208. 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.