Scores by category

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

Safety6#14,662/15,637
Economy29#11,111/15,631
Housing89#1,618/14,977
Health15#13,259/15,609
Healthcare20#12,454/15,650
Environment47#8,153/15,453
Education6#14,724/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,177/15,650
Community25#11,760/15,651
Leisure & amenities67#5,136/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Dadeville, Alabama ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Tallapoosa 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

Effective property tax rate · low0.23%
99/100Alabama 0.37%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Pharmacies · high2.7 /10k
92/100Alabama 2.3 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTallapoosa County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,884 /100k
87/100Alabama 3,481 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTallapoosa County value
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
86/100Alabama 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesTallapoosa County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTallapoosa County value
Drug overdose deaths · low9.2 /100k
85/100Alabama 16.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataTallapoosa County value

Weaknesses

Math scores · low2.34
1/100Alabama 2.65United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTallapoosa County value
Firearm deaths · high27.0 /100k
4/100Alabama 21.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataTallapoosa County value
Mental health providers · low44 /100k
5/100Alabama 156 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTallapoosa County value
Reading scores · low2.63
5/100Alabama 2.83United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTallapoosa County value
Dentists · low27 /100k
8/100Alabama 49 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTallapoosa County value
Broadband subscriptions · low78.8%
9/100Alabama 87.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
78.5% (2015-2019) → 22.9% (2020-2024)
−56 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$24,279 (2015-2019) → $67,147 (2020-2024)
+177%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
47.2% (2015-2019) → 13.9% (2020-2024)
−33 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
43.7% (2015-2019) → 18.5% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateImproving
33.2% (2015-2019) → 8.4% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
32.8% (2015-2019) → 8.5% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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, Dadeville, Alabama improved on 6 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 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.

Improved6

Household income+177%$24,279 → $67,147
High school++20 points69.5% → 89.5%
Inequality−0.2300.612 → 0.382
Rent / income−25 points43.7% → 18.5%
Bachelor's++13 points5.7% → 18.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Dadeville, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.8 min2015-2019	31.4 min2020-2024	+7.7 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	5.7%2015-2019	18.7%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	95%
Broadband subscriptions	57.8%2015-2019	78.8%2020-2024	+21 points	Improved	92%
Effective property tax rate	0.22%2015-2019	0.24%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	14%
High school diploma or higher	69.5%2015-2019	89.5%2020-2024	+20 points	Improved	100%
Home price to income ratio	3.5×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	−0.9×	Within the margin of error	97%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.6122015-2019	0.3822020-2024	−0.230	Improved	100%
Median household income	$24,2792015-2019	$67,1472020-2024	+177%	Improved	100%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	43.7%2015-2019	18.5%2020-2024	−25 points	Improved	99%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.3%2015-2019	12.4%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“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 Dadeville, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Dadeville, 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.

For comparison, Dadeville, Alabama itself moved +30.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,993 residents (±16)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 men (+4.9 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

2,993 residents (±16)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

White59%1,771
Black36%†1,064
Hispanic or Latino0.1%†4

Education

2,131 residents (±220)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

No high school diploma11%†224
High school or GED37%779
Some college25%538

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

1,059 households (±157)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k21%†218
$25k–50k14%†148
$50k–75k25%†265
$75k–100k14%†147
$100k–150k18%†195
$150k–200k4.2%†44
$200k or more4.0%†42

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−30.9 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,059 households (±157)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Own73%771
Rent27%†288

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

270 households (±117)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $75021%†57
$750–1,0000.0%0
$1,000–1,50079%†213

Home values

771 homes (±168)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $150k40%†312
$150k–250k25%†196
$250k–400k28%†216

Age of homes

1,319 homes (±178)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

2010 or later5.1%†67
2000–20098.3%†110
1980–199927%†355

Size of homes

1,319 homes (±178)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Studio3.6%†47
1 bedroom4.8%†63
2 bedrooms21%†274

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,191 workers (±203)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone74%877
Carpool13%†153
Public transit0.0%0
Walk2.8%†33
Bike0.0%0
Work from home7.8%†93
Other2.9%†35

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Drive alone (−20.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

1,098 workers (±185)

Dadeville, Alabama
Alabama share

Under 15 min28%†308
15–29 min37%†401
30–44 min25%†275

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Alexander City, 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 Tallapoosa County, the county holding most of Dadeville's residents.

Tallapoosa County has 823 employer establishments, 202 for every 10,000 residents (0.81× the US rate of 248; 0.98× Alabama's), with 10,554 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,003. The Census Bureau also counts 3,033 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 823; 3,033 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 202; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 10,554
Average annual pay: $42,003; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	61	14.9	0.81×About typical	1,051	$17,452	15
Ambulatory health care services	57	14	0.67×Fewer than typical	410	$61,761	83
Religious organizations	50	12.3	2.21×More than typical	324	$15,349	—
Specialty trade contractors	44	10.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	268	$44,407	253
Construction of buildings	33	8.1	1.07×About typical	128	$55,586	168
Gasoline stations	33	8.1	2.49×More than typical	147	$21,633	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	31	7.6	1.13×About typical	126	$36,960	308
Limited-service restaurants	30	7.4	0.92×About typical	615	$14,937	—
Lessors of real estate	28	6.9	0.56×Fewer than typical	77	$53,896	286
Full-service restaurants	25	6.1	0.80×Fewer than typical	393	$21,715	9
Landscaping services	23	5.6	1.61×More than typical	66	$43,955	116
Offices of physicians	22	5.4	0.83×About typical	221	$66,814	12

Rank places for an industry Open Tallapoosa County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 40,804 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Dadeville, Alabama: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

259.1FY2017
34.7FY2018
69.3FY2019
3.6KFY2021
1.2KFY2022
1.2KFY2023
13.7KFY2024
-0.2FY2025

What was bought

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 Dadeville, Alabama, so they do not add up across cities.

Dadeville, Alabama's figures are part of those of Tallapoosa County, AL ($2,216 in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Tallapoosa 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.

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

House

Mike RogersR-AL-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 3.1%

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.

Tallapoosa County29100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Alexander City, AL30

Other cities and towns in Tallapoosa 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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