ZIP 36550 vs ZIP 36480

This side-by-side compares ZIP 36550 (Little River, AL) and ZIP 36480 (Uriah, AL) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 36550 has a population of 217 at 2 people per square mile, while ZIP 36480 has 1,773 at 4 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 36550 reports a median household income of — against $49,342 in ZIP 36480, with per-capita income of $20,549 vs $30,755. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 0.0% in 36550 and 8.0% in 36480. Poverty rate reads 44.9% vs 9.5%, and unemployment 9.6% vs 3.9% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at — in 36550 versus $163,100 in 36480, with median rent of — and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 54.4% vs 94.8%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.