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Choctaw County · Alabama

ZIP code 36922

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 36922 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
741

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
$88,000

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
4%

Alabama state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 36922 sits in Choctaw County, Alabama and is home to 741 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth $88,000 and median gross rent is —. 100% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 4% (Alabama state rate).

County
Choctaw County

FIPS 01023

State
Alabama (AL)

656 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 36922

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
741ZIP 36922 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
$88,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
36.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
100%Owner-occupied households

ZIP 36922 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 36922 is a very small community in Choctaw County, Alabama, with 741 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #543 of 656 ranked by population — larger than 17% of them. The median age here is 36.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 36922 earn a median of not published a year. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 29.4% 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 ZIP 36922 is valued at $88,000, 71% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 741 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 36922 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for ZIP 36922 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.

Reading ZIP 36922 in context

How 36922 sits inside Choctaw County and Alabama.

ZIP 36922 is tabulated inside Choctaw County, Alabama, one of 10 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 656 across Alabama. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 36922 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 36922 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $88,000, close to the county figure and 41% below the statewide ZIP median. 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 36922 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 36922 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.

Sales tax in 36922

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
4%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$4Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$40Before any exemptions

Alabama levies 4% statewide, and counties, cities and special districts inside this ZIP can add their own local rate on top. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
$457/mo20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
29.4%Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 36922 compares

ZIP 36922 against the median ZIP in Choctaw County and across Alabama.

MeasureZIP 36922County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$42,009$55,313—
Median home value$88,000$89,500$148,100-41%
Median gross rent—$615$823—
Population7418693,811-81%

Medians are computed across the 10 ZIP areas in Choctaw County and the 656 ZIP areas in Alabama.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 656 Alabama ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

above 12% of 571 state ZIPs

#503
Population

larger than 17% of 656 state ZIPs

#543

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Choctaw County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Choctaw County, Alabama.

ZIP 36922 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 36922?
ZIP 36922 lies mostly in Choctaw County, Alabama. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 36922?
Alabama charges 4% statewide, plus any county, city or district rate that applies locally.
Is 36922 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth $88,000 — -41% against the typical Alabama ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 36922, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.