Census-designated place · Baldwin County, Alabama

Bon Secour, Alabama

Bon Secour is a census-designated place in Baldwin County, Alabama, part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro area. It has 2,789 residents. Bon Secour, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 38 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,777 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #54 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), job growth (high) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on natural hazard risk (high), income inequality (Gini index) (high) and child poverty rate (high).

38Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,777 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #54 of 319 in AL
Population: 2,789 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 645.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 0108272

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety53#7,318/15,637
Economy32#10,602/15,631
Housing77#3,437/14,977
Health42#9,130/15,609
Healthcare33#10,492/15,650
Environment36#9,946/15,453
Education48#8,118/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,907/15,650
Community22#12,137/15,651
Leisure & amenities73#4,274/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bon Secour, Alabama ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Baldwin County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Child care cost burden · low19.4%
96/100Alabama 25.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBaldwin County value
Job growth · high3.3%
95/100Alabama 0.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataBaldwin County value
Rent-burdened households · low9.7%
94/100Alabama 48.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Effective property tax rate · low0.49%
88/100Alabama 0.37%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090High uncertainty
Comfortable days · high32.0%
87/100Alabama 28.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationBaldwin County value
Restaurants and bars · high11.7 /10k
87/100Alabama 6.9 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBaldwin County value

Weaknesses

Natural hazard risk · high97.7
2/100Alabama 57.32025Federal Emergency Management AgencyBaldwin County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.547
8/100Alabama 0.479United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Child poverty rate · high63.0%
10/100Alabama 20.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Broadband subscriptions · low79.5%
18/100Alabama 87.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high18.0%
18/100Alabama 10.0%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Suicide rate · high20.9 /100k
18/100Alabama 17.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBaldwin County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,234 (2015-2019) → 2,789 (2020-2024)
+126%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 63.0% (2020-2024)
+63 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$27,674 (2015-2019) → $61,497 (2020-2024)
+122%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateWorsening
6.2% (2015-2019) → 17.7% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Average commute timeWorsening
21.5 min (2015-2019) → 33.1 min (2020-2024)
+54%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
7.4% (2015-2019) → 18.0% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bon Secour, Alabama improved on 1 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Household income+122%$27,674 → $61,497

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Bon Secour, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.4%2015-2019	33.6%2020-2024	+9.2 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Broadband subscriptions	84.2%2015-2019	79.5%2020-2024	−4.7 points	Within the margin of error	2%
High school diploma or higher	87.2%2015-2019	88.0%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Home price to income ratio	5.6×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	−0.6×	Within the margin of error	94%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4632015-2019	0.5472020-2024	+0.084	Within the margin of error	7%
Median household income	$27,6742015-2019	$61,4972020-2024	+122%	Improved	99%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bon Secour, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bon Secour, Alabama in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Bon Secour, Alabama five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Bon Secour, Alabama itself moved −4.3 points in standing on average over the same 6 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,789 residents (±1,477)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

972 households (±326)

Bon Secour, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k18%†173
$25k–50k19%†184
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

972 households (±326)

Bon Secour, Alabama
Alabama share

Own69%†675
Rent31%†297

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,721 workers (±1,162)

Bon Secour, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone84%†1,443
Carpool14%†247
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Baldwin County, the county holding most of Bon Secour's residents.

Baldwin County has 6,409 employer establishments, 252 for every 10,000 residents (1.02× the US rate of 248; 1.22× Alabama's), with 72,022 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,188. The Census Bureau also counts 25,088 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,409; 25,088 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 252; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 72,022
Average annual pay: $45,188; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Baldwin County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	531	20.9	1.14×About typical	10,619	$23,997	122
Specialty trade contractors	481	18.9	1.22×About typical	3,654	$58,399	1,964
Lessors of real estate	452	17.8	1.44×More than typical	2,240	$48,577	3,527
Ambulatory health care services	444	17.5	0.84×About typical	4,131	$64,236	945
Services to buildings and dwellings	253	10	1.48×More than typical	1,824	$37,482	2,384
Full-service restaurants	247	9.7	1.27×More than typical	6,372	$27,103	59
Real estate agents and brokers	244	9.6	1.97×More than typical	622	$54,508	1,178
Construction of buildings	242	9.5	1.26×More than typical	1,260	$72,232	1,224
Building equipment contractors	208	8.2	1.36×More than typical	1,300	$53,324	344
Limited-service restaurants	203	8	1.00×About typical	3,525	$19,631	39
Religious organizations	183	7.2	1.30×More than typical	1,700	$25,622	—
Clothing and accessories stores	173	6.8	1.88×More than typical	1,791	$24,806	226

Rank places for an industry Open Baldwin County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 254,193 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $112.8K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bon Secour, Alabama: $40.45 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $112.8K; +130% vs FY2025
Per resident: $40.45; US $1,994
Sole-source: 7.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$104.3K92%
Department of Veterans Affairs$8,3237.4%
U.S. Coast Guard$2190.2%

Top recipients

SEVERANCE SECURITY SERVICES LLC$104.3K92%
MARTIN MISER CODY & ASSOCIATES LLC$8,3237.4%
ENHANCED ENVIRONMENTAL & EMERGENCY SERVICES INC$2190.2%

Spending by fiscal year

-139.2KFY2017
996.8FY2018
-1.3KFY2019
329FY2020
2.7KFY2021
2.3MFY2022
-215.7KFY2023
406.4FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Investigation and security services · 5616$112.6K99.8%
Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$2190.2%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bon Secour, Alabama, so they do not add up across cities.

Bon Secour, Alabama's figures are part of those of Baldwin County, AL ($10.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bon Secour is mostly in Baldwin County.

See federal money in Baldwin County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bon Secour, Alabama is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Barry MooreR-AL-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 2.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Baldwin County62100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL67

Other cities and towns in Baldwin County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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