Work & commute · Cowarts

Work & commute in Cowarts, AL

Most working residents leave Cowarts for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Dothan (52%), Ashford (4%) and Montgomery (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

22 of 768 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 746 Cowarts residents head out of town to work, 22 work right here, and 417 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cowarts.

746live here, work elsewhere

22live and work here

417work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cowarts goes to work

Dothan6 mi away

52%402

Ashford4.6 mi away

4%28

Cowarts (in town)right here

3%22

Montgomery96.9 mi away

3%22

Daleville24.5 mi away

1%10

Webb3.7 mi away

1%9

Headland10.6 mi away

1%8

Enterprise32.7 mi away

1%8

Birmingham182.3 mi away

1%8

Marianna, FL28.9 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%244

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

How far

How far Cowarts commutes

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

62%

11%

19%

62%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cowarts is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cowarts are

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

Jobs based in Cowarts

439 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities43%

Services (health, schools, offices…)40%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Cowarts residents hold

768 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−23%

Jobs based in Cowarts, 2013 → 2023: 572 → 439. 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.