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Work & commute in Morrison Crossroads · A commuter town

100% of Morrison Crossroads’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Morrison Crossroads for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Carrollton (13%), Ashland (11%) and Roanoke (7%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 71 working residents
Typical commute
26 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
40 min
More than AL (26 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than AL (9%)
Jobs based here
15
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Morrison Crossroads?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

13% of working residents work in Carrollton

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Wedowee: 4 residents work here (6%)Ashland: 8 residents work here (11%)Owens Cross Roads: 1 residents work here (1%)Irondale: 1 residents work here (1%)Talladega: 3 residents work here (4%)Roanoke: 5 residents work here (7%)Anniston: 3 residents work here (4%)Huntsville: 2 residents work here (3%)Birmingham: 2 residents work here (3%)Carrollton: 9 residents work here (13%)Morrison CrossroadsCarrolltonAshlandRoanokeWedoweeTalladegaAnnistonMorrison Crossroads
1
Carrollton, GA25.9 mi away
13%9
2
Ashland22.4 mi away
11%8
3
Roanoke20.1 mi away
7%5
4
Wedowee7.6 mi away
6%4
5
Talladega35.3 mi away
4%3
6
Anniston25.6 mi away
4%3
7
Huntsville111.5 mi away
3%2
8
Birmingham75.8 mi away
3%2
9
Owens Cross Roads97.8 mi away
1%1
10
Irondale68 mi away
1%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
46%33
The top trips

Where Morrison Crossroads clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 40 minutes each way, longer than most of Alabama

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
306 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Morrison Crossroads40 min
Alabama26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

of Morrison Crossroads workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
Day and night

Morrison Crossroads quiets down on a workday

On a workday 71 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.

71live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
15work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night150
Workday95
150live here− 71head out to work+ 15come in to work= 95on a workday

About 95 people are in Morrison Crossroads on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.21jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Morrison Crossroads commutes less than 26 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miCarrollton: 13% · 25.9 miAshland: 11% · 22.4 miRoanoke: 7% · 20.1 miWedowee: 6% · 7.6 miTalladega: 4% · 35.3 miAnniston: 4% · 25.6 miHuntsville: 3% · 111.5 miBirmingham: 3% · 75.8 miOwens Cross Roads: 1% · 97.8 miIrondale: 1% · 68 miCarrollton 13%Ashland 11%Roanoke 7%Wedowee 6%Talladega 4%Morrison Crossroads
Morrison CrossroadsTop destinations (size = commuters)
13%Under 10 mi9 residents
24%10–24 mi17 residents
23%25–50 mi16 residents
40%Over 50 mi28 residents

About 40% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

What the 15 jobs in Morrison Crossroads are

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

Jobs based in Morrison CrossroadsJobs Morrison Crossroads residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms20%30%
Trade, transport & utilities80%17%
Services: health, schools, offices0%54%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less33%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month53%28%
Over $3,333 a month13%56%

Who does it

29 or younger20%14%
30 to 5473%59%
55 and older7%27%
−17%

Jobs based in Morrison Crossroads, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 15. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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