Heath, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Heath town is a very small community in Alabama, with 238 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #496 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 16% of them. The median age here is 60.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Heath town earn a median of $63,463 a year, 19.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% 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 14.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Heath town is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $380 a month, 73% below the national figure, or roughly $4,560 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 7.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 46.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 60.8 puts Heath town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 238 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Heath town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Heath town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.