Work & commute · Saks

Work & commute in Saks, AL

Most working residents leave Saks for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Anniston (30%), Oxford (12%) and Gadsden (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 3,554 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 3,507 Saks residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 375 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Saks.

3,507live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

375work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Saks goes to work

Anniston3.6 mi away

30%1,050

Oxford8 mi away

12%433

Gadsden22.4 mi away

4%149

Jacksonville8.9 mi away

3%120

Birmingham55.7 mi away

3%115

Lincoln18.2 mi away

2%83

Huntsville82.8 mi away

2%62

West End-Cobb Town4.3 mi away

2%56

Montgomery97.2 mi away

2%55

Pell City25.8 mi away

1%49

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%1,382

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

How far

How far Saks commutes

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

53%

17%

24%

53%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Saks is a commuter town

0.12jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Saks are

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

Jobs based in Saks

422 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Saks residents hold

3,554 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−30%

Jobs based in Saks, 2013 → 2023: 605 → 422. 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.