What is the population of Clay city?

Clay city has 10,288 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #67 of 593 in Alabama.

What is the median household income in Clay city?

Median household income in Clay city is $86,163 a year, 9.7% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Clay city?

Median gross rent is $1,373 a month and the median home value is $198,400, so rent absorbs about 19.1% of median household income.

Is Clay city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Clay city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Clay, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Clay, Alabama (Clay, AL — Census place “Clay city”) is 10,288 residents, ranking #67 of 593 places in Alabama. Median household income is $86,163, the median home is worth $198,400 and median gross rent runs $1,373 a month. Looking for the Clay Alabama ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Clay, AL: 35126.

Population: 10,288Clay city residents
Median household income: $86,163Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $198,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,373Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 93.8%Owner-occupied households

Clay ZIP codes (Alabama)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Clay.

The Clay AL ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

35126

What the numbers mean in Clay city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Clay city median would spend about 19.1% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 10.3% of residents and 93.8% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Clay city, AL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Clay city is a mid-size town in Alabama, with 10,288 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #67 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 40.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Clay city earn a median of $86,163 a year, 9.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 55% above 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 10.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Clay city is valued at $198,400, 34.6% below the national figure and 25% above the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,373 a month, 2.3% below the national figure, or roughly $16,476 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.1% 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 2.3×, 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. 93.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

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What is the population of Clay city?: Clay city has 10,288 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #67 of 593 in Alabama.
What is the median household income in Clay city?: Median household income in Clay city is $86,163 a year, 9.7% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Clay city?: Median gross rent is $1,373 a month and the median home value is $198,400, so rent absorbs about 19.1% of median household income.
Is Clay city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Clay city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Clay city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.