Work & commute · Oak Grove

Work & commute in Oak Grove, AL

Most working residents leave Oak Grove for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Sylacauga (19%), Birmingham (7%) and Hoover (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 243 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 237 Oak Grove residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 275 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Grove.

237live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

275work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Grove goes to work

Sylacauga1.7 mi away

19%46

Birmingham36.8 mi away

7%16

Hoover31.9 mi away

4%9

Talladega20.4 mi away

3%8

Childersburg7.4 mi away

3%7

Alexander City28.3 mi away

3%7

Oak Grove (in town)right here

2%6

Homewood34.6 mi away

2%5

Bessemer40.6 mi away

2%5

Alabaster30.1 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%130

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

How far

How far Oak Grove commutes

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

42%

33%

17%

42%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

33%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Grove is balanced between jobs and homes

1.16jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Grove are

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

Jobs based in Oak Grove

281 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities46%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Oak Grove residents hold

243 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+19%

Jobs based in Oak Grove, 2013 → 2023: 236 → 281. 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.