ZIP code 36723

ZIP 36723 is a very small community in Wilcox County, Alabama, with 427 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #576 of 656 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 19.3 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 ZIP 36723 earn a median of $38,281 a year, 51.3% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 9.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 36723 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 88.6% 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.

A median age of 19.3 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 427 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 36723 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for ZIP 36723 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.

ZIP 36723 is tabulated inside Wilcox County, Alabama, one of 11 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 656 across Alabama. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 36723 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 36723 reports a median household income of $38,281, 7% below the $41,042 county median, and 31% below the $55,313 typical AL ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Alabama charges 4% statewide, and local governments overlapping 36723 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 36723 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.