What is the population of Margaret town?

Margaret town has 5,538 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #110 of 593 in Alabama.

What is the median household income in Margaret town?

Median household income in Margaret town is $97,075 a year, 23.6% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Margaret town?

Median gross rent is $881 a month and the median home value is $224,700, so rent absorbs about 10.9% of median household income.

Is Margaret town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Margaret town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Margaret, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Margaret, Alabama (Margaret, AL — Census place “Margaret town”) is 5,538 residents, ranking #110 of 593 places in Alabama. Median household income is $97,075, the median home is worth $224,700 and median gross rent runs $881 a month. Looking for the Margaret Alabama ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Margaret, AL: 35112, 35120.

Population: 5,538Margaret town residents
Median household income: $97,075Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $224,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $881Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 31.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 87.1%Owner-occupied households

Margaret ZIP codes (Alabama)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Margaret.

The Margaret AL ZIP code list below covers 2 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Margaret town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Margaret town median would spend about 10.9% 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 6.6% of residents and 87.1% of households own their home.

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

Margaret town, AL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Margaret town is a mid-size town in Alabama, with 5,538 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #110 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 81% of them. The median age here is 31.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Margaret town earn a median of $97,075 a year, 23.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 74% above the $55,687 median for the 322 Alabama cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 6.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Margaret town is valued at $224,700, 25.9% below the national figure and 42% above the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $881 a month, 37.3% below the national figure, or roughly $10,572 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.9% 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. 87.1% 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. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Margaret town?: Margaret town has 5,538 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #110 of 593 in Alabama.
What is the median household income in Margaret town?: Median household income in Margaret town is $97,075 a year, 23.6% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Margaret town?: Median gross rent is $881 a month and the median home value is $224,700, so rent absorbs about 10.9% of median household income.
Is Margaret town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Margaret town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Margaret town 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.