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SheetAL-BAYOU-LA-BATRE-AL · Bayou La Batre, AL 1,977 pop · income 8th pct
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 Bayou La Batre
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bayou La Batre on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Camden · lowest
38,864
Camden · lowest
38,864 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #1
Danforth · near
40,662
Danforth · near
40,662 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #2
Bayou La Batre · this city
40,667
Bayou La Batre · this city
40,667 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #3
Redkey · near
40,667
Redkey · near
40,667 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #4
Farwell · near
40,667
Farwell · near
40,667 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #5
DeLand Southw… · near
40,670
DeLand Southw… · near
40,670 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #6
Glendale · highest
118,438
Glendale · highest
118,438 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
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 Bayou La Batre 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: 1,977.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bayou La Batre - the verdict
Nationally, Bayou La Batre sits in the 8th percentile for household income and the 1st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
8th
percentile, household income
6th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
1st
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: Bayou La Batre, AL
1,977 people live in Bayou La Batre, Alabama - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Bayou La Batre households earn a median of $40,667 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 26.8%. Home values in Bayou La Batre run a median of $87,500, and the median resident age is 42.0 years. 11.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 47.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Bayou La Batre (No Permits), per Census BPS data. Bayou La Batre's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 7282.9 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).
Living costs in Alabama run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Alabama at 88.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $936 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Alabama's average monthly utility costs around $245 (state average). Workers in Bayou La Batre report an average commute of 17.9 minutes, with 80.7% driving alone and 6.6% working from home. 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 Bayou La Batre'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 housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bayou La Batre, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Bayou La Batre?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 26.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Bayou La Batre?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.9 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What does the education layer cover for Bayou La Batre?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 11.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bayou La Batre?
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.
Within Alabama, the closest population matches are Slocomb (1,995 residents, $38,988 income); Sylvania (2,005 residents, $53,973 income); Stevenson (1,947 residents, $48,214 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Owingsville, KY (1,977 residents); Blooming Prairie, MN (1,977 residents); Tunica Resorts, MS (1,977 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bayou La Batre?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 7282.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 219% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
7282.9
Violent rate
887.0
Property rate
6395.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Bayou La Batre growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -84 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
2,152
2025 estimate
2,068
Period change
-3.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 26.8% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
F
City profile score · Bayou La Batre, AL
22/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
11.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$40,667
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
26.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
887 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bayou La Batre profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 11/100 (F) · 11.5%
Household income: 8/100 (F) · $40,667
Poverty rate: 4/100 (F) · 26.8%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 887 /100k
Where Bayou La Batre sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bayou La Batre'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 - Bayou La Batre highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Bayou La Batre, AL (this city): home $87,500, crime 7,283/100k
Owingsville, KY : home $92,700, crime 501/100k
Delaware City, DE : home $245,500, crime 732/100k
Sylvania, AL : home $129,400, crime 993/100k
Stevenson, AL : home $150,200, crime 1,565/100k
Dauphin Island, AL : home $387,400, crime 1,501/100k
Grove Hill, AL : home $151,400, crime 1,338/100k
Camden, AL : home $110,100, crime 960/100k
How does Bayou La Batre compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bayou La Batre stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income8% higher than other cities
Home value6% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety1% 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, Bayou La Batre ranks #220 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 Bayou La Batre 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 Bayou La Batre near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bayou La Batre ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bayou La Batre only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#409 of 530
23rd percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#438 of 517
15th percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#62 of 556
89th percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#376 of 556
32nd 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
8th percentile nationally for median household income · 1st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bayou La Batre's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bayou La Batre'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 Bayou La Batre's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$87,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 94% 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
Bayou La Batre's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,235 of 15,516
More affordable than 86% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,108 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.2×, Bayou La Batre sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,235 of 15,516 and #2,108 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$40,667Bayou La Batre, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bayou La Batre, 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 Bayou La Batre, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)26.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,977
Median Income
$40,667
Median Home Value
$87,500
Median Age
42.0
Poverty Rate
26.8%
Labor force participation
47.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
11.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
7282.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
887.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
6395.9
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.
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bayou La Batre's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,152 residents
2021
2,137 residents
2022
2,115 residents
2023
2,104 residents
2024
2,093 residents
2025
2,068 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
2
2
0
$0.3M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.9 minutes
Drive Alone
80.7%
Carpool
12.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
6.6%
Based on 772 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 Bayou La Batre. 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 Bayou La Batre 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 Bayou La Batre sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bayou La Batre 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, 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.