Work & commute · McCalla

Work & commute in McCalla, AL

Most working residents leave McCalla for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (27%), Bessemer (12%) and Hoover (11%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

143 of 5,368 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,225 McCalla residents head out of town to work, 143 work right here, and 3,264 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in McCalla.

5,225live here, work elsewhere

143live and work here

3,264work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where McCalla goes to work

Birmingham20.4 mi away

27%1,446

Bessemer5.6 mi away

12%624

Hoover13.5 mi away

11%589

Homewood16.5 mi away

5%267

McCalla (in town)right here

3%143

Tuscaloosa29.4 mi away

2%120

Vestavia Hills19.9 mi away

2%113

Pelham17.2 mi away

2%104

Hueytown7.3 mi away

2%89

Alabaster13.3 mi away

1%80

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%1,793

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

How far

How far McCalla commutes

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

18%

61%

12%

18%Under 10 mi

61%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

McCalla is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in McCalla are

3,407 jobs are based in McCalla. Here is what they are, next to the jobs McCalla’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in McCalla

3,407 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities40%

Services (health, schools, offices…)20%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs McCalla residents hold

5,368 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+14%

Jobs based in McCalla, 2013 → 2023: 2,992 → 3,407. 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.