Attalla, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Attalla city is a mid-size town in Alabama, with 5,829 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #106 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 48.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Attalla city earn a median of $55,429 a year, 29.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $55,687 median for the 322 Alabama cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Attalla city is valued at $120,400, 60.3% below the national figure and 24% below the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $617 a month, 56.1% below the national figure, or roughly $7,404 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 77.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.