Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · AL · GEOID 1719762024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Spanish Fort, Alabama
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 26.0 min one way; 11.6% worked from home, 83.5% drove alone, and 1.3% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip26.0 min±4.9 min MOE
Worked from home11.6%±5.5 pp MOE
Drove alone83.5%±6.1 pp MOE
60+ minute trip1.3%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 Spanish Fort city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +2.5 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +4.0 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 Spanish Fort city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 83.5%; 0.0% used public transit and 11.6% worked from home.
Each share uses 4,736 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Spanish Fort city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 57th 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 higher than about 57% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 51% 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 96% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Spanish Fort city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 4,736 workers age 16+, including 4,188 workers with reported travel time and 548 home workers.
Population estimate10,662± 22 MOE
Workers age 16+4,736± 493 MOE
Workers with travel time4,188± 506 MOE
Estimated home workers548± 267 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 Spanish Fort city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.