Orange Beach, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Orange Beach city is a mid-size town in Alabama, with 8,244 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #86 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 85% of them. The median age here is 51.1 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 Orange Beach city earn a median of $89,034 a year, 13.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 60% 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 5.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Orange Beach city is valued at $476,000, 56.9% above the national figure and 201% above the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,339 a month, 4.8% below the national figure, or roughly $16,068 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18% 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 5.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 63.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

A median age of 51.1 puts Orange Beach city 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.

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.