Work & commute · Eagle Point

Work & commute in Eagle Point, AL

Most working residents leave Eagle Point for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (27%), Hoover (17%) and Vestavia Hills (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 1,325 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,309 Eagle Point residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 747 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Eagle Point.

1,309live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

747work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Eagle Point goes to work

Birmingham11.1 mi away

27%356

Hoover7.8 mi away

17%224

Vestavia Hills5.6 mi away

6%78

Homewood8.6 mi away

5%69

Alabaster15.4 mi away

3%37

Mountain Brook7.1 mi away

2%33

Pelham5.7 mi away

2%33

Chelsea6.8 mi away

2%21

Meadowbrook1.6 mi away

2%20

Huntsville89.6 mi away

1%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%436

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

How far

How far Eagle Point commutes

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

49%

36%

12%

49%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Eagle Point is a commuter town

0.58jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Eagle Point are

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

Jobs based in Eagle Point

763 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Eagle Point residents hold

1,325 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month70%

−7%

Jobs based in Eagle Point, 2013 → 2023: 822 → 763. 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.