Work & commute · Wilsonville

Work & commute in Wilsonville, AL

Most working residents leave Wilsonville for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (16%), Hoover (9%) and Columbiana (7%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 745 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 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 739 Wilsonville residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 106 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wilsonville.

739live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

106work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wilsonville goes to work

Birmingham26.5 mi away

16%117

Hoover20.6 mi away

9%69

Columbiana8 mi away

7%51

Alabaster19.3 mi away

6%44

Homewood23.8 mi away

4%33

Pelham15.2 mi away

4%30

Calera16.8 mi away

3%24

Chelsea9.7 mi away

3%23

Vestavia Hills21 mi away

3%21

Sylacauga13 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%319

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

How far

How far Wilsonville commutes

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

13%

49%

25%

12%

13%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wilsonville is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wilsonville are

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

Jobs based in Wilsonville

112 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities45%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Wilsonville residents hold

745 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−60%

Jobs based in Wilsonville, 2013 → 2023: 283 → 112. 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.