State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Alabama
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,007 ± $8 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 48.8% ± 0.5 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 25.1% ± 0.4 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $40,280. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $1,007 ± $8 | 48.8% | 25.1% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Alabama
- Autauga County$1,263 median gross rent · 34.6% rent burden
- Baldwin County$1,277 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- Barbour County$688 median gross rent · 36.6% rent burden
- Bibb County$733 median gross rent · 60% rent burden
- Blount County$776 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- Bullock County$556 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Butler County$725 median gross rent · 45.7% rent burden
- Calhoun County$826 median gross rent · 44.9% rent burden
- Chambers County$871 median gross rent · 46.9% rent burden
- Cherokee County$762 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Chilton County$871 median gross rent · 35.4% rent burden
- Choctaw County$543 median gross rent · 37.5% rent burden
- Clarke County$782 median gross rent · 57.5% rent burden
- Clay County$619 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Cleburne County$798 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
- Coffee County$1,018 median gross rent · 38.9% rent burden
- Colbert County$887 median gross rent · 40.6% rent burden
- Conecuh County$834 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Coosa County$665 median gross rent · 63.5% rent burden
- Covington County$746 median gross rent · 49.9% rent burden
- Crenshaw County$661 median gross rent · 44.1% rent burden
- Cullman County$908 median gross rent · 39% rent burden
- Dale County$889 median gross rent · 39.9% rent burden
- Dallas County$733 median gross rent · 62.2% rent burden
- DeKalb County$693 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Elmore County$1,071 median gross rent · 45.4% rent burden
- Escambia County$766 median gross rent · 43.5% rent burden
- Etowah County$847 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Fayette County$667 median gross rent · 33.2% rent burden
- Franklin County$676 median gross rent · 35.9% rent burden
- Geneva County$784 median gross rent · 39.7% rent burden
- Greene County$432 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Hale County$715 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Henry County$769 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
- Houston County$945 median gross rent · 46% rent burden
- Jackson County$780 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Jefferson County$1,193 median gross rent · 53.5% rent burden
- Lamar County$549 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- Lauderdale County$838 median gross rent · 37.5% rent burden
- Lawrence County$753 median gross rent · 38% rent burden
- Lee County$1,058 median gross rent · 57.3% rent burden
- Limestone County$970 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Lowndes County$710 median gross rent · 53.8% rent burden
- Macon County$734 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- Madison County$1,209 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden
- Marengo County$716 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Marion County$630 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Marshall County$795 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Mobile County$1,052 median gross rent · 55.6% rent burden
- Monroe County$666 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Montgomery County$1,092 median gross rent · 53.4% rent burden
- Morgan County$864 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
- Perry County$592 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
- Pickens County$648 median gross rent · 40.4% rent burden
- Pike County$856 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Randolph County$708 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
- Russell County$939 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
- Shelby County$1,401 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
- St. Clair County$1,084 median gross rent · 42.5% rent burden
- Sumter County$775 median gross rent · 59.6% rent burden
- Talladega County$785 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden
- Tallapoosa County$765 median gross rent · 36.4% rent burden
- Tuscaloosa County$1,037 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Walker County$756 median gross rent · 40.6% rent burden
- Washington County$655 median gross rent · 33% rent burden
- Winston County$803 median gross rent · 33.4% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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