Work & commute · Lipscomb

Work & commute in Lipscomb, AL

Most working residents leave Lipscomb for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (29%), Bessemer (14%) and Hoover (9%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 733 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 725 Lipscomb residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 164 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lipscomb.

725live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

164work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lipscomb goes to work

Birmingham10.2 mi away

29%210

Bessemer4.6 mi away

14%99

Hoover7.6 mi away

9%65

Homewood7.1 mi away

6%41

McCalla10.3 mi away

3%20

Montgomery83.7 mi away

2%17

Vestavia Hills11 mi away

2%16

Pelham13 mi away

2%15

Huntsville89 mi away

2%15

Tuscaloosa37.2 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%225

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

How far

How far Lipscomb commutes

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

55%

25%

16%

55%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lipscomb is a commuter town

0.23jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lipscomb are

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

Jobs based in Lipscomb

172 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities72%

Services (health, schools, offices…)28%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Lipscomb residents hold

733 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+13%

Jobs based in Lipscomb, 2013 → 2023: 152 → 172. 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.