Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · AL · GEOID 1378642024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Irondale, Alabama
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 22.3 min one way; 10.9% worked from home, 80.9% drove alone, and 4.4% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip22.3 min±3.9 min MOE
Worked from home10.9%±4.0 pp MOE
Drove alone80.9%±5.5 pp MOE
60+ minute trip4.4%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Irondale city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.2 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.5 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Irondale city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 80.9%; 0.0% used public transit and 10.9% worked from home.
Each share uses 6,592 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Irondale city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 34th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 66% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 54% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 69% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Irondale city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 6,592 workers age 16+, including 5,876 workers with reported travel time and 716 home workers.
Population estimate13,464± 31 MOE
Workers age 16+6,592± 724 MOE
Workers with travel time5,876± 702 MOE
Estimated home workers716± 278 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Alabama reports →Comparable Alabama commute records for Irondale city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.