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.
Source:
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.
- Bear Creek · this city · lowest
Bear Creek · this city · lowest
$29,196 median HH income
- Brilliant · near
Brilliant · near
$43,958 median HH income
- Hackleburg · near
Hackleburg · near
$44,096 median HH income
- Winfield · near
Winfield · near
$44,732 median HH income
- Eldridge · near
Eldridge · near
$49,250 median HH income
- Hamilton · highest
Hamilton · highest
$63,639 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.
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.
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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