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SheetAL-ATMORE-AL · Atmore, AL 8,389 pop · income 4th pct · 10 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Atmore
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Atmore on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Denmark · lowest
33,100
Denmark · lowest
33,100 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #1
San Antonio c… · near
33,103
San Antonio c… · near
33,103 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #2
Atmore · this city
33,104
Atmore · this city
33,104 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #3
Clifton Forge · near
33,107
Clifton Forge · near
33,107 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #4
Storrs · near
33,125
Storrs · near
33,125 median HH income
25.1% of the leader · rank #5
Wading River · highest
132,213
Wading River · highest
132,213 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Atmore on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 8,389.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Atmore - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Atmore lands in the 4th percentile for household income and the 4th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
4th
percentile, household income
20th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
4th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Atmore, AL
Atmore is a small town in Alabama, home to 8,389 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $33,104 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 26.7%. Typical homes in Atmore are valued around $128,900, and the median resident age is 43.2 years. Educational attainment runs 6.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 33.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 29 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 625% from five years earlier. Atmore's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 4955.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Atmore's yearly average temperature at 67.4°F with 63.6 inches of precipitation per year and 0.1 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Alabama run below the national norm: the state registers 88.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $936 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $245 across Alabama, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 61.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Atmore's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to within-city variation to schools and households to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Atmore, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Atmore?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 90.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Atmore?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 26.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Which cities make useful reference points for Atmore?
Within Alabama, the closest population matches are Brook Highland (8,428 residents, $87,143 income); Orange Beach (8,244 residents, $89,034 income); Bay Minette (8,215 residents, $39,737 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gilberts, IL (8,389 residents); Winnemucca, NV (8,391 residents); Lock Haven, PA (8,386 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 10 Census tracts to this city.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Atmore?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 67.4°F, with 63.6 inches of precipitation and 0.1 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Alabama is 61.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
67.4°F
Annual precipitation
63.6 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
61.5
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 6.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
6.1%
Poverty estimate
26.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Atmore?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4955.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 117% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3593.0
Violent rate
1362.4
Total reported rate
4955.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -15 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 29 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-0.2%
2025 estimate
8,360
2020 estimate
8,375
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 26.7% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
F
City profile score · Atmore, AL
19/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
88.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate F
26.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$33,104
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
6.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
1,362 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Atmore profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Poverty rate: 4/100 (F) · 26.7%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $33,104
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 6.1%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,362 /100k
Where Atmore sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Atmore's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Atmore highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Atmore, AL (this city): home $128,900, crime 4,955/100k
Gilberts, IL : home $330,100, crime 247/100k
Winnemucca, NV : home $290,500, crime 2,020/100k
Lock Haven, PA : home $127,500, crime 1,817/100k
Sitka, AK : home $442,100, crime 831/100k
Crete, IL : home $209,100, crime 1,075/100k
Orange Beach, AL : home $476,000, crime 2,202/100k
Bay Minette, AL : home $146,500, crime 2,046/100k
Arab, AL : home $196,700, crime 3,806/100k
Guntersville, AL : home $293,500, crime 2,777/100k
Andalusia, AL : home $156,000, crime 4,334/100k
How does Atmore compare to other US cities?
Where Atmore sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income4% higher than other cities
Home value20% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety4% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Alabama alone, Atmore ranks #214 of 222 Alabama cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Atmore against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Alabama only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Alabama-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Atmore near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Atmore ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Atmore only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#476 of 530
10th percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#292 of 517
44th percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#64 of 556
88th percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#504 of 556
9th percentile in Alabama
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Alabama only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
4th percentile nationally for median household income · 4th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Atmore's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Atmore's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Atmore's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$128,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 80% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Atmore's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,382 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,157 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Atmore sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,382 of 15,516 and #8,157 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$33,104Atmore, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Atmore, AL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Atmore, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)6.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)26.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)33.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,389
Median Income
$33,104
Median Home Value
$128,900
Median Age
43.2
Poverty Rate
26.7%
Labor force participation
33.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
6.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4955.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1362.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3593.0
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
67.4°F
Annual Precipitation
63.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.1"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Atmore's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,375 residents
2021
8,345 residents
2022
8,326 residents
2023
8,341 residents
2024
8,329 residents
2025
8,360 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
29
housing units authorized
Single-Family
24
detached homes
Multifamily
5
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$0.6M
2020
5
5
0
$0.9M
2021
7
7
0
$1.0M
2022
19
19
0
$3.0M
2023
17
17
0
$2.7M
2024
29
24
5
$5.3M
Permit volume increased 625% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
90.6%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.5%
Based on 2,412 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Alabama statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $245
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Alabama at $245 (electricity about $138 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Alabama statewide averages, not a meter reading for Atmore. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Alabama's BEA cost-of-living index is 88.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Atmore is $936/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Alabama statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 61.5 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Alabama statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Atmore sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Atmore compares to similar-size Alabama cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.