35501 — Jasper, Alabama

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 35501. Its median home value runs 34% below Jasper as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

53out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 32% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
Opportunity2,139th of 3,116 ZIP areas measured45
SchoolsTop 42% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured56
Growth1,653rd of 3,124 ZIP areas measured49
Housing affordabilityTop 6% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured85
ClimateTop 28% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured76
Physical resilience2,650th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured22
Access2,390th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured80
Economic stability2,935th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured21
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.6% and median household income $54,726, putting employment conditions in the middle range of ZIP areas measured. The unemployment rate is published for Jasper, AL, which contains 35501, rather than for 35501 alone.

In the public schools here, 48% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 17.8 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most ZIP areas measured: rent takes 25% of renter income and the median home is 2.2 times what its owners earn.

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
9,927
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$54,726
Bottom 21% nationally
Density
208/sq mi
47.8 sq mi of land
Median age
33.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Jasper
Alabama
Metro area
Nearest major airport
BHM
36 mi · Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Intl
Median home value
$141,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Jasper, AL, which contains 35501, is 3.6%, lower than in 78% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Jasper, AL, which contains 35501, fell 1.9% over the past year, to 26,051 employed residents.

Median household income of $54,726 is lower than in 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsWalker County, AL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$56,22323rd percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftWalker County, AL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$46,4894th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$9,2752024 ACS 5-Year$54,726Bottom 21%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,5822024 ACS 5-Year$30,619Bottom 29%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year21.1%Bottom 15%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±3.6 min2024 ACS 5-Year29.2 minBottom 42%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year22.3%Bottom 47%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year82.1%74th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJasper, AL’s figureJuly 202626,051Bottom 28%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Jasper, AL’s figureJuly 2026−1.1%Bottom 38%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Jasper, AL’s figureJuly 2026−1.9%Bottom 24%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceJasper, AL’s figureJuly 202627,01228th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year74.5%Bottom 36%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageBirmingham, AL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$60,770Bottom 26%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageBirmingham, AL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$47,770Bottom 29%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year0.3%69th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Jasper, AL’s figureJuly 2026+0.7%Bottom 11%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateJasper, AL’s figureJuly 20263.6%Top 22%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.5%15th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202455k42k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $54,726 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.

Largest occupations — Birmingham, AL

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Registered Nurses17,850$78,680
Retail Salespersons15,280$31,450
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive10,900$44,580
Stockers and Order Fillers10,890$35,660
Cashiers10,690$29,310
Fast Food and Counter Workers10,080$27,020

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Jasper, AL, the city containing this ZIP code.

48% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 51% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.8 students for every full-time teacher across 5 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.8
across 5 of them
Math proficiency
48.4%
Top 42% in Alabama
Reading proficiency
51.2%
Top 29% in Alabama
All 7 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Jasper High SchoolJasper City85016.037%47%
Maddox Intermediate SchoolJasper City64318.950%54%
T R Simmons Elementary SchoolJasper City50717.5——
Memorial Park Elementary SchoolJasper City48320.166%55%
Jasper Junior High SchoolJasper City46718.049%51%
Walker County Schools 180 ProgramWalker County0———
Walker County Center Of TechnologyWalker County0———

50.0% 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.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 8% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 91.8, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Birmingham, AL Metro Area is up 39% over five years, and up 3.4% 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 $444 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.31% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $886, some 14% above the $779 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $886 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $35,400 a year, about 65% of the median household income here of $54,726.

The typical renter household here spends 25% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $779 a month.

A median home at $141,500 costs 2.2 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $63,810, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
91.8

Prices here run about 8% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Birmingham, AL Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
24.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.2×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$886
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$779
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$141,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 35501’s median household income of $54,726, 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
Cost of living indexthe Birmingham, AL Metro Area’s figure202391.8Top 18%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Birmingham, AL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.4%54th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Birmingham, AL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+38.9%33rd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Birmingham, AL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+85.4%33rd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.62024 ACS 5-Year2.2Top 30%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year65.5%22nd percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4262024 ACS 5-Year4,71971st percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$724Top 3%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,232Top 5%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$886Top 2%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1732024 ACS 5-Year$779Top 21%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$30,5272024 ACS 5-Year$141,50024th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1072024 ACS 5-Year$4443rd percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$8,2542024 ACS 5-Year$63,810Bottom 22%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.10%2024 ACS 5-Year0.31%2nd percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year24.5%Top 30%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±192024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year20.0%91st percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2212024 ACS 5-Year94687th percentileof 33,7722024 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 and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

49/ 100
Ranks 1,653 of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

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.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 41 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Jasper, AL, which contains 35501, rather than for 35501 alone.

At 2.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Jasper, AL, which contains 35501, rather than for 35501 alone.

Units permitted
41
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.8
Bottom 48% nationally
Year over year
+71%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.8%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
27%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$56,223
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$46,489
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Jefferson County, AL 693 people · 31% of arrivals
  2. Winston County, AL 213 people · 9.5% of arrivals
  3. Cullman County, AL 119 people · 5.3% of arrivals
  4. Tuscaloosa County, AL 75 people · 3.4% of arrivals
  5. Blount County, AL 67 people · 3.0% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Jefferson County, AL 600 people · 32% of departures
  2. Winston County, AL 152 people · 8.1% of departures
  3. Cullman County, AL 113 people · 6.0% of departures
  4. Tuscaloosa County, AL 74 people · 4.0% of departures
  5. Fayette County, AL 68 people · 3.6% 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 Walker County, AL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Jasper, AL, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 31°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 61.8 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station JASPER, 5.9 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND6.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals61.8"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals0.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals31°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals38°F1991-2020 Normals

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

Physical risk

22 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and cold wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 56% of it. Cold wave is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

TornadoHigh
Inland floodingHigh
Heat waveElevated
EarthquakeElevated
LightningModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
10.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
21.6
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
40.2
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
18.5
per 100,000 residents

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.

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 35501 (Walker County) rather than 35501 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read 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.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Jasper carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
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. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Intl at 36 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year88.8%Bottom 47%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle36 miBottom 24%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 21%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year7.8%Top 50%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth IntlBHM36 mi12,007 ft
Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones FldHSV64 mi10,001 ft
Golden Triangle RgnlGTR79 mi8,003 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
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
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
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.

35501 vs Jasper

How this ZIP area compares with Jasper as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

35501
Jasper
Median household income: Jasper is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$54,726
vs
$66,238
Per capita income: Jasper is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$30,619
vs
$33,377
Population density
208/sq mi
vs
491/sq mi
Median home value
$141,500
vs
$215,700
Median gross rent: Jasper is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$779
vs
$721
Homeownership rate
65.5%
vs
66.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher: Jasper is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.3%
vs
28.2%
Poverty rate: Jasper is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
21.1%
vs
15.9%
Median age
33.4
vs
35.7

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.