Birmingham

City Commute Profile

Birmingham, AL

Where Birmingham’s 80,811 resident workers go each day — 44.2% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Hoover.

AlabamaLODES 2023 data
71
Commute Score

71 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Birmingham at a glance
Employed Residents
80,811
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
9.6mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
44.2%
Share working within the area
Work from home
9.9%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Hoover
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Birmingham proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Birmingham commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Birmingham

80,811 commutes, one dot at a time

Birmingham

Where 80,811 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Birmingham, by worker count.

1Birmingham0.0 mi35,753
2Hoover9.6 mi5,554
3Homewood3.8 mi5,280
4Bessemer12.1 mi3,566
5Vestavia Hills6.3 mi2,336
6Mountain Brook4.8 mi1,493
7Trussville15.0 mi1,468
8Huntsville82.7 mi1,402

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Birmingham.

1Birmingham0.0 mi35,753
2Hoover9.6 mi12,994
3Vestavia Hills6.3 mi6,535
4Homewood3.8 mi4,336
5Trussville15.0 mi3,864
6Mountain Brook4.8 mi3,848
7Alabaster20.2 mi3,289
8Bessemer12.1 mi2,735

Top industries

The sectors that employ Birmingham’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance24.5%
EDEducational Services7.7%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services7.1%
FIFinance and Insurance6.8%
RTRetail Trade6.6%
AFAccommodation and Food Services6.1%
MFManufacturing5.9%
WSWholesale Trade5.6%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.0%

Birmingham city profile

Who lives in Birmingham — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
198,173
Median age
35.6yrs
Median household income
$46,051
Median home value
$158,800
Median gross rent
$1,107/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
31.1%
Poverty rate
24.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Birmingham

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

8 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps99%
5 Gbps99%
8 Gbps8%
See all internet providers in Birmingham

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).