Enterprise, AL

Micro Area Profile

54,920 residents. Jobs, income, development, climate and physical risk across the Enterprise, AL micropolitan area.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 29% of 834 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 9 sources
OpportunityTop 42% of 835 metro and micro areas measured55
SchoolsTop 21% of 695 metro and micro areas measured73
GrowthTop 7% of 834 metro and micro areas measured78
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 835 metro and micro areas measured84
ClimateTop 23% of 835 metro and micro areas measured74
Physical resilience643rd of 835 metro and micro areas measured34
AccessTop 35% of 835 metro and micro areas measured85
Economic stability730th of 835 metro and micro areas measured18
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.5% and median household income $68,353, putting employment conditions in the middle range of metro and micro areas measured.

In the public schools here, 56% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.4 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 240 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 35% on the prior year.

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At a glance

Population
54,920
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$68,353
Top 45% nationally
Density
81/sq mi
679 sq mi of land
Median age
39.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
Area type
Micropolitan area
Alabama
Nearest major airport
DHN
32 mi · Dothan Rgnl
Median home value
$188,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.5%, lower than in 77% of the 835 measured US metro and micro areas.

Employment fell 2.3% over the past year, to 23,268 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,2182024 ACS 5-Year$68,353Top 45%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,3682024 ACS 5-Year$34,095Bottom 40%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year16.9%Bottom 19%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±0.8 min2024 ACS 5-Year24.7 minBottom 44%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year22.5%Bottom 39%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year83.9%95th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202623,268Bottom 32%of 835July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+1.9%Top 24%of 835July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−2.3%Bottom 19%of 835July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202624,10531st percentileof 835July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year72.2%Bottom 24%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.0%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%8th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+0.6%Bottom 12%of 835July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.5%Top 23%of 835July 2026
Worked from home ±0.8%2024 ACS 5-Year4.4%8th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/073.51.7
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.5% 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.

56% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 52% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.4 students for every full-time teacher across 16 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
18
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.4
across 16 of them
Math proficiency
55.5%
Top 9% in Alabama
Reading proficiency
51.6%
Top 13% in Alabama
The 12 largest of 18 public schools, by enrollment.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Enterprise High SchoolEnterprise City2,17718.160%53%
Zion Chapel High SchoolCoffee County88718.153%49%
Hillcrest Elementary SchoolEnterprise City75319.361%58%
New Brockton Elementary SchoolCoffee County72719.146%44%
Holly Hill Elementary SchoolEnterprise City66620.865%63%
Brookwood Elementary SchoolEnterprise City65720.5——
Coppinville SchoolEnterprise City57118.454%55%
Kinston SchoolCoffee County52416.956%57%
Rucker Boulevard Elementary SchoolEnterprise City51721.551%50%
Dauphin Junior High SchoolEnterprise City48117.267%57%
New Brockton High SchoolCoffee County45519.034%38%
Harrand Creek Elementary SchoolEnterprise City44017.660%55%

51.1% 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.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $677 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.36% 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 $1,018 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 55% of the median household income here of $68,353.

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 $1,018 a month.

A median home at $188,600 costs 2.4 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $79,360, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
25.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.4×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$933
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,018
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$188,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Enterprise’s median household income of $68,353, 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 to income ±0.12024 ACS 5-Year2.4Top 35%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year72.3%65th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±552024 ACS 5-Year24,65637th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$711Top 8%of 818FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,298Top 29%of 818FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$933Top 13%of 818FY2026
Median gross rent ±$522024 ACS 5-Year$1,018Bottom 43%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,3262024 ACS 5-Year$188,60039th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$332024 ACS 5-Year$6774th percentileof 9332024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$3,9122024 ACS 5-Year$79,360Bottom 44%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.02%2024 ACS 5-Year0.36%3rd percentileof 9322024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year25.1%Top 10%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1082024 ACS 5-Year25920th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year1.1%29th percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year13.8%92nd percentileof 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±4182024 ACS 5-Year3,67241st percentileof 9352024 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

78/ 100
Top 7% of 834 published metro profiles
The most recent move in permitting was upward, in a series running from 2024 to 2025.

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 5% since 2020, reaching 56,358 in 2024.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 56,358 residents in 2024, up 1.2% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 240 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

At 4.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US metro and micro areas.

Units permitted
240
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.4
Top 29% nationally
Year over year
+35%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202456k54k
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.

Weather & climate

7 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 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 59.1 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ANDALUSIA OPP AP, 24.7 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND6.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals59.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 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

34 / 100
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, ice storm, wildfire, drought, 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. This value is the population-weighted mean of all component counties; expected annual loss is their sum. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

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. City profiles inside this area carry their own figure where their 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.
Cost of living
Price parities are published for metropolitan areas, and this place lies outside one.
Death-certificate rates
The CDC publishes these rates by county, so a metropolitan area carries none of its own. The county profiles inside it do.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index by county, and only where a monitor sits, so a metropolitan area carries none of its own. The county profiles inside it show it where one exists.
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 32 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year86.8%Bottom 32%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle32 miTop 38%of 835NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle5Top 26%of 835NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year9.9%Bottom 34%of 9352024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Dothan RgnlDHN32 mi8,500 ft
Bob SikesCEW53 mi8,006 ft
Montgomery Rgnl (Dannelly Fld)MGM66 mi9,020 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)
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
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
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
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
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.

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