Work & commute · Mount Olive

Work & commute in Mount Olive, AL

Most working residents leave Mount Olive for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (35%), Gardendale (7%) and Homewood (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20 of 1,895 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 1,875 Mount Olive residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 173 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Olive.

1,875live here, work elsewhere

20live and work here

173work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Olive goes to work

Birmingham10.8 mi away

35%663

Gardendale3.6 mi away

7%127

Homewood15 mi away

6%105

Hoover20.7 mi away

5%101

Vestavia Hills16.3 mi away

2%45

Fultondale5.6 mi away

2%44

Irondale15.3 mi away

2%39

Mountain Brook14.7 mi away

2%38

Bessemer21.4 mi away

2%35

Pelham24.8 mi away

2%34

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%664

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

How far

How far Mount Olive commutes

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

21%

61%

12%

21%Under 10 mi

61%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Olive is a commuter town

0.10jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Olive are

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

Jobs based in Mount Olive

193 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities40%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Mount Olive residents hold

1,895 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month67%

−29%

Jobs based in Mount Olive, 2013 → 2023: 270 → 193. 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.