Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · AL · GEOID 1530162024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 21.7 min one way; 13.7% worked from home, 77.7% drove alone, and 6.9% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip21.7 min±2.9 min MOE
Worked from home13.7%±4.9 pp MOE
Drove alone77.7%±4.7 pp MOE
60+ minute trip6.9%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 Muscle Shoals city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.5 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +6.0 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 Muscle Shoals city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 77.7%; 0.8% used public transit and 13.7% worked from home.
Each share uses 8,395 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Muscle Shoals city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 30th 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 70% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 60% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 63% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 52% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Muscle Shoals city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 8,395 workers age 16+, including 7,243 workers with reported travel time and 1,152 home workers.
Population estimate16,951± 25 MOE
Workers age 16+8,395± 508 MOE
Workers with travel time7,243± 519 MOE
Estimated home workers1,152± 416 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 Muscle Shoals city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.