Every workday, about 1,500 people come to Double Springs for work
About one in 5 of Double Springs’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Haleyville (7%), Birmingham (6%) and Jasper (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.
What kind of work town is Double Springs?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Double Springs’s population more than doubles on a workday
On a workday 296 residents head out to work, 72 work right here, and 1,548 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Double Springs on a workday afternoon, 117% more than live here.
4.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Double Springs makes things: 54% of its jobs are in goods
1,620 jobs are based in Double Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Double Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Double Springs, 2013 → 2023: 1,408 → 1,620. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alabama
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Double Springs workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Where Double Springs’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Double Springs clocks in
6% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Double Springs commutes less than 22 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 35% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Double Springs
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Double Springs, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.