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SheetAL-PRICHARD-AL · Prichard, AL 19,121 pop · income 5th 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 Prichard
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Prichard on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Selma · lowest
32,184
Selma · lowest
32,184 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #1
La Luz · near
35,324
La Luz · near
35,324 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #2
Prichard · this city
35,331
Prichard · this city
35,331 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #3
McRae · near
35,333
McRae · near
35,333 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #4
Middleport · near
35,341
Middleport · near
35,341 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #5
Barton · near
35,341
Barton · near
35,341 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #6
Lakeway · highest
164,978
Lakeway · highest
164,978 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 Prichard 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: 19,121.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Prichard - the verdict
Prichard ranks in the 5th percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
5th
percentile, household income
4th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
19th
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: Prichard, AL
19,121 people live in Prichard, Alabama - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Prichard brings in $35,331 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 27.9%. Prichard's housing stock carries a median value of $79,900, and the median resident age is 37.4 years. Educational attainment runs 9.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 41.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 125 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 6150% from five years earlier. Prichard's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2774.2 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Alabama's average monthly utility costs around $245 (state average). 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 Prichard'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 comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Prichard, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Prichard?
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 Cullman (18,894 residents, $63,704 income); Troy (17,733 residents, $47,595 income); Tillmans Corner (17,678 residents, $52,249 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lakeway, TX (19,130 residents); Winchester, KY (19,133 residents); Liberal, KS (19,107 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 the FBI record say about safety in Prichard?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2774.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 22% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Prichard?
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 27.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. 9.4% 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.
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.
Population change
Is Prichard growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -458 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 125 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
19,283
2025 estimate
18,825
Period change
-2.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Prichard?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.2%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
86.2%
Work from home
4.5%
Public transit
1.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,921 workers age 16+.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 27.9% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
F
City profile score · Prichard, AL
21/100
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.
Violent crime F
632 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
9.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
27.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$35,331
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Prichard profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Violent crime: 8/100 (F) · 632 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 5/100 (F) · 9.4%
Poverty rate: 2/100 (F) · 27.9%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $35,331
Where Prichard sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Prichard'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 - Prichard highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Prichard, AL (this city): home $79,900, crime 2,774/100k
Lakeway, TX : home $695,400, crime 1,299/100k
Winchester, KY : home $180,400, crime 2,961/100k
Liberal, KS : home $134,500, crime 1,397/100k
Kingsland, GA : home $226,800, crime 1,253/100k
Cullman, AL : home $215,200, crime 2,682/100k
Troy, AL : home $214,100, crime 3,996/100k
Selma, AL : home $102,500, crime 3,092/100k
Calera, AL : home $214,200, crime 1,563/100k
Millbrook, AL : home $193,600, crime 3,681/100k
How does Prichard compare to other US cities?
Prichard measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income5% higher than other cities
Home value4% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety19% 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, Prichard ranks #155 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 Prichard 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 Prichard near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Prichard ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Prichard only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#465 of 530
12th percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#461 of 517
11th percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#53 of 556
90th percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#425 of 556
24th 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
5th percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Prichard's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Prichard'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 Prichard's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$79,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 96% 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
Prichard's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,767 of 15,516
More affordable than 82% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#185 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.3×, Prichard sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,767 of 15,516 and #185 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
$35,331Prichard, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Prichard, 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 Prichard, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)9.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)27.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)41.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,121
Median Income
$35,331
Median Home Value
$79,900
Median Age
37.4
Poverty Rate
27.9%
Labor force participation
41.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
9.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2774.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
632.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2142.2
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
Prichard's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,283 residents
2021
19,106 residents
2022
18,920 residents
2023
18,874 residents
2024
18,801 residents
2025
18,825 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
125
housing units authorized
Single-Family
125
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2
2
0
$0.3M
2020
3
3
0
$0.5M
2021
1
1
0
$0.1M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
15
15
0
$4.3M
2024
125
125
0
$35.9M
Permit volume increased 6150% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
86.2%
Carpool
5.8%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
4.5%
Based on 5,921 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 Prichard. 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 Prichard 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 Prichard sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Prichard 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.