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SheetAL-LIVINGSTON-AL · Livingston, AL 3,243 pop · income 1st pct · 5 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 Livingston
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Livingston on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Burke · lowest
24,444
West Burke · lowest
24,444 median HH income
30.9% of the leader · rank #1
Rayville · near
24,474
Rayville · near
24,474 median HH income
30.9% of the leader · rank #2
Sunflower · near
24,479
Sunflower · near
24,479 median HH income
30.9% of the leader · rank #3
Braddock · near
24,489
Braddock · near
24,489 median HH income
30.9% of the leader · rank #4
Livingston · this city
24,491
Livingston · this city
24,491 median HH income
30.9% of the leader · rank #5
Anguilla · near
24,500
Anguilla · near
24,500 median HH income
30.9% of the leader · rank #6
Red Rock CDP… · highest
79,167
Red Rock CDP… · highest
79,167 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 Livingston 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: 3,243.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Livingston - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Livingston lands in the 1st percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
1st
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
31st
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: Livingston, AL
3,243 people live in Livingston, Alabama - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $24,491 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 25.4%. Typical homes in Livingston are valued around $163,300, and the median resident age is 20.1 years. 42.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 37.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 5 residential building permits were authorized in Livingston (Construction Slowdown), down 29% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2034.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 64.0°F.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alabama run around $245, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Livingston'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to reported crime to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Livingston, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Livingston?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 64.0°F. 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.
What does the education layer cover for Livingston?
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. 42.3% 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 Livingston?
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 Hanceville (3,255 residents, $39,894 income); Red Bay (3,213 residents, $35,587 income); Warrior (3,204 residents, $56,133 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Red Rock CDP (Pinal County), AZ (3,243 residents); Zephyrhills North, FL (3,243 residents); Hogansville, GA (3,243 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.
What can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Livingston?
PlainCities matches 5 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Livingston?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 25.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
6.7×
Home value
$163,300
Household income
$24,491
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Livingston growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -82 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 5 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
3,324
2025 estimate
3,242
Period change
-2.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Livingston?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.7%. 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
65.7%
Work from home
16.4%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,057 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Livingston?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2034.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 11% lower 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
2034.9
Violent rate
581.4
Property rate
1453.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 25.4% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
F
City profile score · Livingston, AL
33/100
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 B+
42.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
581 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
25.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$24,491
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Livingston profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 42.3%
Violent crime: 11/100 (F) · 581 /100k
Poverty rate: 6/100 (F) · 25.4%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $24,491
Where Livingston sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Livingston'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 - Livingston highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Livingston, AL (this city): home $163,300, crime 2,035/100k
Hogansville, GA : home $139,700, crime 1,209/100k
Hanceville, AL : home $164,500, crime 1,517/100k
Red Bay, AL : home $105,500, crime 1,547/100k
Warrior, AL : home $152,100, crime 2,455/100k
Union Springs, AL : home $77,300, crime 2,163/100k
Weaver, AL : home $140,500, crime 2,014/100k
East Brewton, AL : home $87,300, crime 2,724/100k
How does Livingston compare to other US cities?
Where Livingston sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income1% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety31% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Alabama and the picture shifts: Livingston ranks #119 of 222 Alabama cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Livingston 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 Livingston near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Livingston ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Livingston only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#519 of 530
2nd percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#201 of 517
61st percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#70 of 556
87th percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#35 of 556
94th 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
1st percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Livingston's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Livingston'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 Livingston's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$163,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% 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
Livingston's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,509 of 15,516
More affordable than 6% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,707 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.7×, Livingston sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,509 of 15,516 and #10,707 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$24,491Livingston, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Livingston, 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 Livingston, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)42.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)25.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)37.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,243
Median Income
$24,491
Median Home Value
$163,300
Median Age
20.1
Poverty Rate
25.4%
Labor force participation
37.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
42.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2034.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
581.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1453.5
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
64.0°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Livingston's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,324 residents
2021
3,189 residents
2022
3,198 residents
2023
3,146 residents
2024
3,142 residents
2025
3,242 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
5
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$0.7M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
5
3
2
$1.5M
2023
6
4
2
$1.5M
2024
5
5
0
$1.5M
Permit volume decreased 29% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.7%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
11.4%
Work from Home
16.4%
Based on 1,057 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 Livingston. 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 Livingston 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 Livingston sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Livingston 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.