Work & commute · Montevallo

Work & commute in Montevallo, AL

Most working residents leave Montevallo for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (13%), Alabaster (11%) and Hoover (9%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

234 of 2,569 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,335 Montevallo residents head out of town to work, 234 work right here, and 1,787 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Montevallo.

2,335live here, work elsewhere

234live and work here

1,787work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Montevallo goes to work

Birmingham27.9 mi away

13%337

Alabaster6.3 mi away

11%294

Montevallo (in town)right here

9%234

Hoover17.4 mi away

9%226

Pelham15.7 mi away

5%127

Calera5.9 mi away

5%119

Homewood23.1 mi away

3%89

Montgomery63.4 mi away

3%75

Bessemer18.4 mi away

3%68

Huntsville109 mi away

2%49

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%951

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

How far

How far Montevallo commutes

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

26%

37%

21%

16%

26%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Montevallo is balanced between jobs and homes

0.79jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Montevallo are

2,021 jobs are based in Montevallo. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Montevallo’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Montevallo

2,021 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Montevallo residents hold

2,569 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+75%

Jobs based in Montevallo, 2013 → 2023: 1,156 → 2,021. 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.