Cherokee, AL

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Cherokee, AL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 4,043. 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 CHEROKEE-AL · Cherokee, AL 1 ZIPs · 4,043 pop · #22194/25278 · Colbert County

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

  • INC-MID $48,720
  • RANK-BOTTOM #22194/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Sheffield
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 76% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 4,043
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $100,500

Nearest income peer: Sheffield, AL ( $8,655 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 Cherokee

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Cherokee 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 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Cherokee, 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.

12th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
4,043
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$48,720
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 ($48,720 average) · poverty 28.7%. The primary code (35616) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (76.4%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Cherokee as a pure owner town.

Within Alabama, Fairfield is the closest lower-income city and Dozier the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Cherokee.

Population concentration

One delivery area carries the whole town

Cherokee is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 35616 is the entire residential footprint (4,043 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

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ZIP Codes in Cherokee, AL

These ZIP codes sit in Colbert County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Cherokee. See the Colbert County roll-up →

Cherokee sits in the lower half of Colbert County on income: Tuscumbia, Muscle Shoals and Leighton report more, and only Sheffield reports less. Muscle Shoals marks the far end of that range at $74,310, 53% above Cherokee.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
35616 4,043 7 America/Chicago

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