Enterprise, Alabama

Area Profile

29,505 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Enterprise, in Coffee County.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 35% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
OpportunityTop 43% of 4,199 cities measured60
SchoolsTop 34% of 4,162 cities measured62
GrowthTop 5% of 4,224 cities measured80
Housing affordabilityTop 10% of 4,218 cities measured81
ClimateTop 46% of 4,225 cities measured71
Physical resilience3,029th of 4,226 cities measured36
Access2,455th of 4,226 cities measured90
Economic stability3,792nd of 4,226 cities measured31
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.6% and median household income $73,125, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured.

In the public schools here, 60% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.9 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 225 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 29% on the prior year.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
29,505
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$73,125
Top 41% nationally
Density
941/sq mi
31.4 sq mi of land
Median age
36.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Alabama
Micro area
Nearest major airport
DHN
23 mi · Dothan Rgnl
Median home value
$202,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6%, lower than in 77% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment fell 2.3% over the past year, to 12,170 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsCoffee County, AL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$54,97016th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftCoffee County, AL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$56,38717th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$6,1582024 ACS 5-Year$73,125Top 41%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,0882024 ACS 5-Year$34,809Top 47%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year17.0%Bottom 29%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.1 min2024 ACS 5-Year21.7 minTop 24%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year25.1%Top 39%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year80.5%61st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202612,170Bottom 6%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+2.2%Top 18%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−2.3%Bottom 16%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202612,6216th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year73.6%Bottom 35%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+0.5%Bottom 19%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.6%Top 23%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year4.9%36th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/073.61.7
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.6% in July 2026. It has been falling, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202473k64k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $73,125 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

60% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 55% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.9 students for every full-time teacher across 9 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.9
across 9 of them
Math proficiency
59.9%
Top 26% in Alabama
Reading proficiency
55.3%
Top 30% in Alabama
All 10 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Enterprise High SchoolEnterprise City2,17718.160%53%
Hillcrest Elementary SchoolEnterprise City75319.361%58%
Holly Hill Elementary SchoolEnterprise City66620.865%63%
Brookwood Elementary SchoolEnterprise City65720.5——
Coppinville SchoolEnterprise City57118.454%55%
Rucker Boulevard Elementary SchoolEnterprise City51721.551%50%
Dauphin Junior High SchoolEnterprise City48117.267%57%
Harrand Creek Elementary SchoolEnterprise City44017.660%55%
Pinedale Elementary SchoolEnterprise City35019.460%56%
Enterprise Career and Technology CenterEnterprise City0———

49.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Alabama’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the non-metropolitan parts of Alabama is up 50% over five years, and up 5.2% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $843 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.42% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $933, below the $1,098 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $933 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $37,300 a year, about 51% of the median household income here of $73,125.

The typical renter household here spends 26% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,098 a month.

A median home at $202,900 costs 2.1 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $94,939, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
26.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.1×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$933
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,098
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$202,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Enterprise’s median household income of $73,125, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price change (1 year)the non-metropolitan parts of Alabama’s figure2026 Q2+5.2%80th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Alabama’s figure2026 Q2+49.8%77th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Alabama’s figure2026 Q2+89.5%45th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year2.1Top 38%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year63.5%26th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3162024 ACS 5-Year12,80595th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$711Top 2%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,298Top 7%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$933Top 3%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$532024 ACS 5-Year$1,098Bottom 39%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$14,7342024 ACS 5-Year$202,90054th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$792024 ACS 5-Year$84318th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$7,5872024 ACS 5-Year$94,939Top 32%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.05%2024 ACS 5-Year0.42%6th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year26.2%Top 38%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±132024 ACS 5-Year861st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%52nd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year12.6%73rd percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3042024 ACS 5-Year1,62097th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures.

Development Momentum

80/ 100
Top 5% of 4,224 published city profiles
Permitting has been rising for the last 2 years of a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 7% since 2020, reaching 30,731 in 2024.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 30,731 residents in 2024, up 1.4% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 225 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show Coffee County, which contains Enterprise, gained about 1.0% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $54,970, close to the $56,387 of households that moved out.

At 7.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
225
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
7.6
Top 17% nationally
Year over year
+29%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202431k29k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+1.0%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
56%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$54,970
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$56,387
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Dale County, AL 699 people · 17% of arrivals
  2. Houston County, AL 211 people · 5.1% of arrivals
  3. Covington County, AL 182 people · 4.4% of arrivals
  4. Geneva County, AL 170 people · 4.1% of arrivals
  5. Pike County, AL 146 people · 3.5% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Dale County, AL 506 people · 14% of departures
  2. Houston County, AL 250 people · 6.7% of departures
  3. Geneva County, AL 189 people · 5.1% of departures
  4. Covington County, AL 160 people · 4.3% of departures
  5. Pike County, AL 125 people · 3.4% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Coffee County, AL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

202020212022202320242025259125
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−26%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 40°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.9 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station DOTHAN RGNL AP, 23.4 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND6.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals53.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals40°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals32°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

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Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 49% of it.

HurricaneElevated
TornadoElevated
LightningModerate
Inland floodingModerate
LandslideModerate
Heat waveModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, earthquake, drought, wildfire, ice storm, winter weather, hail, tsunami, volcanic activity, coastal flooding, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
753
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,854
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Enterprise's police department reported 753 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, higher than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,854.

Coffee County has a modeled homicide rate of about 9.3 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 19.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 10.9 per 100,000 residents in Coffee County.

Homicide
9.3
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
19.8
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
10.9
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
18.4
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Enterprise’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Enterprise (Coffee County) rather than Enterprise itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Cost of living
Price parities are published for metropolitan areas, and this place lies outside one.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. Cost of living is published where the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures it, though not for this place. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Dothan Rgnl at 23 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year89.6%Bottom 49%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle23 miBottom 37%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 45%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year7.5%Bottom 49%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Dothan RgnlDHN23 mi8,500 ft
Bob SikesCEW55 mi8,006 ft
Northwest Florida Beaches IntlECP67 mi10,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Enterprise

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Enterprise with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Enterprise closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
3633039,557$75,765$207,700—