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SheetAL-HUEYTOWN-AL · Hueytown, AL 16,541 pop · income 39th 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 Hueytown
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hueytown on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ada · lowest
51,792
Ada · lowest
51,792 median HH income
45.0% of the leader · rank #1
Menifee · near
62,361
Menifee · near
62,361 median HH income
54.2% of the leader · rank #2
Mancos · near
62,361
Mancos · near
62,361 median HH income
54.2% of the leader · rank #3
Viola · near
62,361
Viola · near
62,361 median HH income
54.2% of the leader · rank #4
Hueytown · this city
62,362
Hueytown · this city
62,362 median HH income
54.2% of the leader · rank #5
Osceola · near
62,363
Osceola · near
62,363 median HH income
54.2% of the leader · rank #6
Glenmont · highest
115,058
Glenmont · highest
115,058 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 Hueytown 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: 16,541.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hueytown - the verdict
Nationally, Hueytown sits in the 39th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
39th
percentile, household income
25th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
15th
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: Hueytown, AL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 16,541 residents in Hueytown, a small town within Alabama. Hueytown households earn a median of $62,362 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Hueytown's housing stock carries a median value of $142,900, and the median resident age is 35.6 years. About 23.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 18 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 157% from five years earlier. Hueytown's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3091.2 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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). 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. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 61.5 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Hueytown'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 to population change to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hueytown, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, 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.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Hueytown?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hueytown?
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 Muscle Shoals (16,670 residents, $70,927 income); Saraland (16,304 residents, $60,577 income); Millbrook (16,923 residents, $64,522 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bostonia, CA (16,545 residents); Ada, OK (16,536 residents); Menomonie, WI (16,548 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 Hueytown?
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 2.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Hueytown growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -613 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 18 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Hueytown?
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.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 23.2% 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.
Poverty estimate
11.9%
Bachelor's degree+
23.2%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hueytown?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3091.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 36% 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
3091.2
Violent rate
512.1
Property rate
2579.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 11.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
D
City profile score · Hueytown, AL
44/100
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 D
23.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$62,362
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
512 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Hueytown profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.2%
Household income: 38/100 (F) · $62,362
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Violent crime: 15/100 (F) · 512 /100k
Where Hueytown sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hueytown'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 - Hueytown highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Hueytown, AL (this city): home $142,900, crime 3,091/100k
Ada, OK : home $169,300, crime 2,396/100k
Menomonie, WI : home $203,800, crime 1,344/100k
Westchester, IL : home $297,400, crime 681/100k
Muscle Shoals, AL : home $198,300, crime 3,166/100k
Saraland, AL : home $210,500, crime 1,787/100k
Millbrook, AL : home $193,600, crime 3,681/100k
Gardendale, AL : home $234,900, crime 1,785/100k
Calera, AL : home $214,200, crime 1,563/100k
How does Hueytown compare to other US cities?
Here's how Hueytown stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income39% higher than other cities
Home value25% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety15% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Alabama, Hueytown ranks #167 of 222 Alabama cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hueytown 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 Hueytown near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hueytown ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hueytown only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#183 of 530
65th percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#260 of 517
50th percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#267 of 556
52nd percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#148 of 556
73rd 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
39th percentile nationally for median household income · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hueytown's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hueytown'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 Hueytown's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$142,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 75% 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
Hueytown's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,900 of 15,516
More affordable than 81% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#201 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.3×, Hueytown sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,900 of 15,516 and #201 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$62,362Hueytown, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hueytown, 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 Hueytown, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,541
Median Income
$62,362
Median Home Value
$142,900
Median Age
35.6
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
56.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3091.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
512.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2579.2
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hueytown's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,772 residents
2021
16,531 residents
2022
16,349 residents
2023
16,233 residents
2024
16,224 residents
2025
16,159 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
18
housing units authorized
Single-Family
18
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$1.5M
2020
7
7
0
$2.4M
2021
24
24
0
$7.2M
2022
10
10
0
$2.9M
2023
6
6
0
$1.2M
2024
18
18
0
$8.7M
Permit volume increased 157% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.8%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
8.8%
Based on 6,833 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 Hueytown. 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 Hueytown 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 Hueytown sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hueytown 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.