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Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL Metro Area

153,911 Population
1,261 square miles 122.1 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2022 1-year unless noted

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Demographics

42.2 ±1.2 Median age
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in Alabama: 39.6 ±0.2
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in United States: 39 ±0.1

Economics

$31,738 ±$1,472 Per capita income
  • a little less than the amount in Alabama: $33,777 ±$383
  • about three-quarters of the amount in United States: $41,804 ±$92
$56,563 ±$4,226 Median household income
  • a little less than the amount in Alabama: $59,674 ±$727
  • about three-quarters of the amount in United States: $74,755 ±$148

14.5% ±2.4% (21,748  ±3,620) Persons below poverty line
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Alabama: 16.2% 800,395 (±0.5% / ±23,225)
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in United States: 12.6% 40,951,624 (±0.1% / ±260,310)

24.4 minutes ±0.7 (1,544,440  ±59,658) Mean travel time to work * ACS 2021 5-year data
  • a little less than the figure in Alabama: 25.2 51,105,464 (±0.2 / ±387,199)
  • about 90 percent of the figure in United States: 26.8 3,757,208,800 (±0.1 / ±8,102,155)

Families

64,312 ±1,734 Number of households
  • Alabama: 2,016,448 ±11,475
  • United States: 129,870,930 ±136,261
2.3 ±0.1 (150,258  ±193) Persons per household
  • a little less than the figure in Alabama: 2.5 † 4,932,977 (±275.5 / ±-555,555,600)
  • a little less than the figure in United States: 2.5 † 325,134,660 (±4.3 / ±-555,555,600)

4.8% ±1.9% (1,647  ±667) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Alabama: 5.2% 61,506 (±0.4% / ±4,652)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in United States: 5.2% 4,036,894 (±0.1% / ±36,689)

Housing

73,041 ±119 Number of housing units
  • Alabama: 2,339,582 ±307
  • United States: 143,772,900 ±7,466

$178,400 ±$11,251 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • about 90 percent of the amount in Alabama: $200,900 ±$2,774
  • about three-fifths of the amount in United States: $320,900 ±$622

13.5% ±2.4% (20,647  ±3,663.3) Moved since previous year
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in Alabama: 12.4% 624,896 (±0.4% / ±22,027.6)
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in United States: 12.6% 41,404,691 (±0.1% / ±187,841.9)

Social

89.1% ±4.2% (95,883  ±4,589.4) High school grad or higher
  • about the same as the rate in Alabama: 88.8% 3,085,627 (±0.8% / ±28,475.7)
  • about the same as the rate in United States: 89.6% 205,882,074 (±0.1% / ±272,504.5)
24.2% ±2.2% (26,005  ±2,385.7) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about 80 percent of the rate in Alabama: 28.8% 1,000,791 (±0.5% / ±15,844.9)
  • about two-thirds of the rate in United States: 35.7% 81,908,335 (±0.1% / ±175,321.9)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home * ACS 2021 5-year data

2.6% ±9,195.7% (3,921  ±822) Foreign-born population
  • about two-thirds of the rate in Alabama: 3.8% † 191,234 (±412.6% / ±9,607)
  • about one-fifth of the rate in United States: 13.9% † 46,182,176 (±23.1% / ±149,842)

6.8% ±1.1% (8,320  ±1,309) Population with veteran status
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Alabama: 7.7% 303,619 (±0.2% / ±7,848)
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in United States: 6.2% 16,200,322 (±0% / ±70,866)
8,320 Total veterans ±1,309 7,653 Male ±1,230 667 Female ±345

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