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SheetAL-HOLTVILLE-AL · Holtville, AL 5,700 pop · income 54th 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 Holtville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Holtville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Monroeville · lowest
31,629
Monroeville · lowest
31,629 median HH income
14.6% of the leader · rank #1
Holtville · this city
73,250
Holtville · this city
73,250 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #2
Manchester · near
73,250
Manchester · near
73,250 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #3
Avilla · near
73,250
Avilla · near
73,250 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #4
Graettinger · near
73,250
Graettinger · near
73,250 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #5
Lakota · near
73,250
Lakota · near
73,250 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #6
Poolesville · highest
216,653
Poolesville · highest
216,653 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Holtville on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 5,700.
Holtville ranks in the 54th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
54th
percentile, household income
55th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Holtville, AL
Alabama's Holtville is a small town, with 5,700 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Holtville report a median income of $73,250 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 14.4%. Holtville's housing stock carries a median value of $247,500, and the median resident age is 33.0 years. Educational attainment runs 19.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 56.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Alabama run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Alabama scores 88.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $936 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $245 across Alabama, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Holtville report an average commute of 30.8 minutes, with 87.3% driving alone and 6.5% 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 Holtville'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Holtville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Holtville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 87.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.8 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Holtville?
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.
Within Alabama, the closest population matches are Highland Lakes (5,673 residents, $169,833 income); Rainsville (5,613 residents, $64,140 income); Attalla (5,829 residents, $55,429 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Waynesboro, GA (5,700 residents); Winslow, ME (5,701 residents); Fruitland, MD (5,698 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Holtville?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Above median income · poverty 14.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
C-
City profile score · Holtville, AL
51/100
4 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.
Household income C-
$73,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Holtville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Household income: 53/100 (C-) · $73,250
Bachelor's+ share: 32/100 (F) · 19.2%
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.4%
How does Holtville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Holtville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income54% higher than other cities
Home value55% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Holtville 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 Holtville near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Holtville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Holtville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#107 of 530
80th percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#53 of 517
90th percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#219 of 556
60th percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#200 of 556
64th 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
54th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Holtville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$247,50045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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
Holtville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,487 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,901 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Holtville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,487 of 15,516 and #6,901 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
$73,250Holtville, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Holtville, 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 Holtville, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,700
Median Income
$73,250
Median Home Value
$247,500
Median Age
33.0
Poverty Rate
14.4%
Labor force participation
56.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.8 minutes
Drive Alone
87.3%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
6.5%
Based on 2,244 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 Holtville. 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 Holtville 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 Holtville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Holtville 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, 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.