West Blocton, AL population, income and ZIP codes

West Blocton town is a small town in Alabama, with 1,320 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #287 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 32.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 West Blocton town earn a median of $37,537 a year, 52.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 33% below 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 26.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Blocton town is valued at $107,400, 64.6% below the national figure and 32% below the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $955 a month, 32.1% below the national figure, or roughly $11,460 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68.3% 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.

West Blocton town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.5% of median income while homes cost only 2.9× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.