Work & commute · Grand Bay

Work & commute in Grand Bay, AL

Most working residents leave Grand Bay for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Mobile (35%), Pascagoula (11%) and Montgomery (2%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

38 of 1,319 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

48 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 1,281 Grand Bay residents head out of town to work, 38 work right here, and 493 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Grand Bay.

1,281live here, work elsewhere

38live and work here

493work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Grand Bay goes to work

Mobile19.5 mi away

35%460

Pascagoula, MS14.8 mi away

11%139

Grand Bay (in town)right here

3%38

Montgomery178.3 mi away

2%27

Bayou La Batre6.6 mi away

2%24

Tillmans Corner10.9 mi away

2%23

Birmingham229.7 mi away

1%19

Fairhope27.9 mi away

1%14

Prichard24.4 mi away

1%14

Daphne29.6 mi away

1%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%548

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

How far

How far Grand Bay commutes

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

13%

59%

11%

17%

13%Under 10 mi

59%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Grand Bay is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Grand Bay are

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

Jobs based in Grand Bay

531 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Grand Bay residents hold

1,319 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−1%

Jobs based in Grand Bay, 2013 → 2023: 539 → 531. 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.