Work & commute · Sweet Water

Work & commute in Sweet Water, AL

Most working residents leave Sweet Water for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Thomasville (10%), Demopolis (8%) and Birmingham (6%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 79 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 72 Sweet Water residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 123 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sweet Water.

72live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

123work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sweet Water goes to work

Thomasville15 mi away

10%8

Sweet Water (in town)right here

9%7

Demopolis27.4 mi away

8%6

Birmingham116.1 mi away

6%5

Tuscaloosa80.4 mi away

5%4

Linden14.2 mi away

3%2

Butler20.4 mi away

3%2

Anniston161 mi away

3%2

Yellow Bluff24.6 mi away

1%1

Fort Deposit76.3 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%41

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

How far

How far Sweet Water commutes

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

15%

33%

11%

41%

15%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

41%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sweet Water is a job hub

1.65jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Sweet Water are

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

Jobs based in Sweet Water

130 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Sweet Water residents hold

79 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+13%

Jobs based in Sweet Water, 2013 → 2023: 115 → 130. 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.