Sheffield, AL
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Sheffield, AL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 9,042. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
U.S. Census Bureau, SimpleMaps US ZIP Code Database, delivery-area ZIP coverage
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet SHEFFIELD-AL · Sheffield, AL 1 ZIPs · 9,042 pop · #23917/25278 · Colbert County
INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-LOW $40,065
- RANK-BOTTOM #23917/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Cherokee
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-LOW 61% owners
- POP-TOWN 9,042
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $135,400
Nearest income peer: Cherokee, 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 Sheffield
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Sheffield on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Sheffield · this city · lowest
Sheffield · this city · lowest
$40,065 median HH income
- Cherokee · near
Cherokee · near
$48,720 median HH income
- Tuscumbia · near
Tuscumbia · near
$64,706 median HH income
- Leighton · near
Leighton · near
$71,217 median HH income
- Muscle Shoals · highest
Muscle Shoals · highest
$74,310 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, Sheffield, AL sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- 5th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 9,042
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $40,065
- 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 ($40,065 average) · poverty 26.5%. The primary code (35660) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (60.6%) for this income tier, rent $829 may matter more than the home-value average.
Within Alabama, Carrollton is the closest lower-income city and Safford the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Sheffield.
Population concentration
One delivery area carries the whole town
Sheffield is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 35660 is the entire residential footprint (9,042 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.
ZIP Codes in Sheffield, AL
These ZIP codes sit in Colbert County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Sheffield. See the Colbert County roll-up →
Every one of the 4 cities sharing Colbert County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Muscle Shoals and Leighton among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Muscle Shoals marks the far end of that range at $74,310, 85% above Sheffield.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35660 | 9,042 | 530 | America/Chicago |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Sheffield, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.