Bear Creek, AL

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Bear Creek, AL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,137. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet BEAR-CREEK-AL · Bear Creek, AL 1 ZIPs · 1,137 pop · #24868/25278 · Marion County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-LOW $29,196
  • RANK-BOTTOM #24868/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Brilliant
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 79% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,137
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $97,200

Nearest income peer: Brilliant, AL (+ $14,762 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Bear Creek

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Bear Creek on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Bear Creek, AL sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

2nd pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,137
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$29,196
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($29,196 average) · poverty 26.4%. The primary code (35543) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (78.5%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Bear Creek as a pure owner town.

Within Alabama, Sipsey is the closest lower-income city and York the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Bear Creek.

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ZIP Codes in Bear Creek, AL

These ZIP codes sit in Marion County, which covers 7 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Bear Creek. See the Marion County roll-up →

Every one of the 6 cities sharing Marion County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Bear Creek, Hamilton, Winfield and Guin among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Hamilton marks the far end of that range at $63,639, 118% above Bear Creek.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
35543 1,137 12 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Bear Creek, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →

Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →

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