Prattville, Alabama

Area Profile

39,482 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Prattville, in Autauga County.

66out of 100
Area Score
Top 25% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 15 sources
OpportunityTop 30% of 4,199 cities measured66
SchoolsTop 34% of 4,162 cities measured62
GrowthTop 16% of 4,224 cities measured69
Housing affordabilityTop 6% of 4,218 cities measured84
ClimateTop 48% of 4,225 cities measured71
Physical resilience2,731st of 4,226 cities measured45
AccessTop 33% of 4,226 cities measured96
Economic stability2,900th of 4,226 cities measured47
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.3% and median household income $81,337, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured.

In the public schools here, 56% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.0 students for every teacher.

207 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 11% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

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
39,482
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$81,337
Top 32% nationally
Density
1,105/sq mi
35.7 sq mi of land
Median age
36.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Alabama
Metro area
Nearest major airport
MGM
11 mi · Montgomery Rgnl (Dannelly Fld)
Median home value
$214,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3%, lower than in 87% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment fell 2.2% over the past year, to 18,848 employed residents.

37% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 78% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsAutauga County, AL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$64,05435th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftAutauga County, AL’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$60,96025th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$7,3042024 ACS 5-Year$81,337Top 32%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,8102024 ACS 5-Year$42,686Top 27%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year11.2%Bottom 48%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.3 min2024 ACS 5-Year25.7 minTop 45%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year36.6%Top 22%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year83.2%70th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202618,848Bottom 21%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+1.7%Top 23%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−2.2%Bottom 17%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202619,48221st percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year74.8%Bottom 39%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageMontgomery, AL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$55,740Bottom 6%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageMontgomery, AL Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$44,950Bottom 6%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.1%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%74th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+0.9%Bottom 4%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.3%Top 13%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year7.5%49th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/073.31.5
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.3% 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

202120222023202481k66k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $81,337 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 — Montgomery, AL

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators7,410$45,380
Retail Salespersons4,720$29,650
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive4,060$40,260
Registered Nurses3,990$79,570
Stockers and Order Fillers3,780$34,370
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand3,510$37,370

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.

56% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 58% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.0 students for every full-time teacher across 7 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.0
across 7 of them
Math proficiency
56.3%
Top 32% in Alabama
Reading proficiency
58.2%
Top 26% in Alabama
All 10 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Prattville High SchoolAutauga County1,84421.052%57%
Daniel Pratt Elementary SchoolAutauga County1,03517.363%64%
Prattville Junior High SchoolAutauga County92818.267%56%
Prattville Elementary SchoolAutauga County54618.856%61%
Prattville Primary SchoolAutauga County54413.6——
Prattville Intermediate SchoolAutauga County51817.939%52%
Prattville Kindergarten SchoolAutauga County40815.7——
Autauga County Alternative SchoolAutauga County0———
Autauga County Technology CenterAutauga County0———
Louise M Smith Development CenterAutauga County0———

43.8% 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.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 10% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 89.9, 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 Montgomery, AL Metro Area is up 41% over five years, and up 6.0% 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 $680 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.32% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,037, below the $1,313 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,037 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $41,500 a year, about 51% of the median household income here of $81,337.

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 $1,313 a month.

A median home at $214,600 costs 2.4 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $90,903, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
89.9

Prices here run about 10% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Montgomery, 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
24.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.4×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,037
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,313
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$214,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Prattville’s median household income of $81,337, 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 Montgomery, AL Metro Area’s figure202389.9Top 7%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Montgomery, AL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+6.0%87th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Montgomery, AL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+41.0%46th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Montgomery, AL Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+64.0%9th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year2.4Top 46%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year67.4%33rd percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4412024 ACS 5-Year16,08096th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$887Top 13%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,335Top 9%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,037Top 10%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$662024 ACS 5-Year$1,313Bottom 27%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,2192024 ACS 5-Year$214,60057th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$302024 ACS 5-Year$68012th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,5772024 ACS 5-Year$90,903Top 36%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.02%2024 ACS 5-Year0.32%2nd percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year24.8%Top 32%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±232024 ACS 5-Year1468th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%52nd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year5.4%41st percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2212024 ACS 5-Year88994th 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 and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

69/ 100
Top 16% of 4,224 published city profiles
Permitting has been falling 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 6% since 2020, reaching 40,139 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 207 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show Autauga County, which contains Prattville, gained about 1.2% 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 $64,054, above the $60,960 of households that moved out.

At 5.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
207
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
5.2
Top 27% nationally
Year over year
+11%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202440k38k
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
+1.2%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
40%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$64,054
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$60,960
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Elmore County, AL 842 people · 19% of arrivals
  2. Montgomery County, AL 801 people · 18% of arrivals
  3. Dallas County, AL 164 people · 3.8% of arrivals
  4. Chilton County, AL 130 people · 3.0% of arrivals
  5. Fairfax County, VA 84 people · 1.9% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Elmore County, AL 847 people · 23% of departures
  2. Montgomery County, AL 491 people · 13% of departures
  3. Chilton County, AL 143 people · 3.8% of departures
  4. Jefferson County, AL 91 people · 2.4% of departures
  5. Lee County, AL 78 people · 2.1% 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 Autauga County, AL. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

202020212022202320242025332200
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−40%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 37°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 51.2 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MONTGOMERY AP, 10.6 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals51.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals37°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals35°F1991-2020 Normals

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

Physical risk

45 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and heat wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 58% of it.

Heat waveModerate
TornadoElevated
LandslideModerate
HurricaneModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Inland floodingElevated

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, strong wind, wildfire, drought, hail, ice storm, cold wave, winter weather, 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
255
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,470
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.

Prattville's police department reported 255 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,470.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 8.1 per 100,000 residents in Autauga County.

Firearm deaths, all intents
18.2
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
8.1
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
18.2
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.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Prattville’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 Prattville (Autauga County) rather than Prattville 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.

Death-certificate rates
The CDC publishes these rates by county, and no county figure could be attached to this page.
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 Montgomery Rgnl (Dannelly Fld) at 11 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year96.3%Top 19%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle11 miTop 29%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 20%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year2.6%Top 23%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Montgomery Rgnl (Dannelly Fld)MGM11 mi9,020 ft
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth IntlBHM79 mi12,007 ft
Dothan RgnlDHN98 mi8,500 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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Other cities in Montgomery, AL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
MontgomeryMontgomery County197,49452Montgomery vs Prattville
MillbrookElmore County17,18959Millbrook vs Prattville
Pike RoadMontgomery County10,57465Pike Road vs Prattville

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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
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
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
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 Prattville

2 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Prattville 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 Prattville 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
3606728,293$65,593$189,40064
3606622,632$86,278$227,500—