Census-designated place · Madison County, Alabama

Hazel Green, Alabama

Hazel Green is a census-designated place in Madison County, Alabama, part of the Huntsville, AL metro area. It has 3,940 residents. Hazel Green, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 51 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,630 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #29 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), child care cost burden (low) and gyms and fitness centers (high). It ranks worst on distance to an Amtrak station (high), students per teacher (high) and public libraries (low).

51Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,630 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #29 of 319 in AL
Population: 3,940 (2020-2024)
Land area: 10 mi²
Density: 392.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 0133808

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.

Safety19#12,666/15,637
Economy69#4,834/15,631
Housing79#3,176/14,977
Health56#6,907/15,609
Healthcare58#6,621/15,650
Environment58#6,415/15,453
Education47#8,313/15,649
Infrastructure44#8,842/15,650
Community21#12,343/15,651
Leisure & amenities62#5,990/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hazel Green, Alabama ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Madison 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 · low0.22%
99/100Alabama 0.37%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Child care cost burden · low17.3%
99/100Alabama 25.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMadison County value
Gyms and fitness centers · high2.3 /10k
95/100Alabama 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMadison County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Alabama 14.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMadison County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Alabama 11.8United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMadison County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMadison County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an Amtrak station · high85 mi
14/100Alabama 51 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMadison County value
Students per teacher · high17.8×
16/100Alabama 17.4×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsMadison County value
Public libraries · low0.3 /10k
17/100Alabama 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMadison County value
Homicide rate · high6.3 /100k
20/100Alabama 9.8 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMadison County value
Property crime rate · high1,771 /100k
20/100Alabama 1,462 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationMadison County value
Time spent in the emergency room · high200 min
22/100Alabama 155 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMadison County value

Trends

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

Median household incomeImproving
$43,269 (2015-2019) → $86,271 (2020-2024)
+99%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.9% (2015-2019) → 90.0% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
21.2% (2015-2019) → 36.2% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
42.6% (2015-2019) → 36.7% (2020-2024)
−5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
5.3% (2015-2019) → 8.9% (2020-2024)
+3.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
11.4% (2015-2019) → 8.0% (2020-2024)
−3.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Hazel Green, Alabama improved on 3 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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.

Improved3

Household income+99%$43,269 → $86,271
Bachelor's++15 points21.2% → 36.2%
Broadband+15 points74.9% → 90.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Hazel Green, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	30.6 min2015-2019	25.9 min2020-2024	−4.7 min	Within the margin of error	89%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.2%2015-2019	36.2%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	97%
Broadband subscriptions	74.9%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Effective property tax rate	0.36%2015-2019	0.22%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%
High school diploma or higher	89.7%2015-2019	89.1%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	90%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3852015-2019	0.4332020-2024	+0.047	Within the margin of error	18%
Median household income	$43,2692015-2019	$86,2712020-2024	+99%	Improved	98%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.3%2015-2019	8.9%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	16%

“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 Hazel Green, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hazel Green, 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, Hazel Green, Alabama itself moved +10.9 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

3,940 residents (±591)

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

1,355 households (±179)

Hazel Green, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k9.0%†122
$25k–50k18%†242
$50k–75k15%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,355 households (±179)

Hazel Green, Alabama
Alabama share

Own88%1,186
Rent12%†169

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

1,824 workers (±269)

Hazel Green, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone80%1,455
Carpool6.5%†119
Public transit0.0%0

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 Huntsville, 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 Madison County, the county holding most of Hazel Green's residents.

Madison County has 9,295 employer establishments, 225 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 1.09× Alabama's), with 191,024 paid employees at an average annual pay of $67,688. The Census Bureau also counts 33,169 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 9,295; 33,169 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 225; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 191,024
Average annual pay: $67,688; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	858	20.8	1.00×About typical	10,498	$71,447	1,473
Restaurants and other eating places	746	18	0.98×About typical	16,710	$21,892	150
Lessors of real estate	514	12.4	1.01×About typical	1,632	$59,070	3,864
Specialty trade contractors	425	10.3	0.66×Fewer than typical	4,625	$58,358	1,684
Limited-service restaurants	404	9.8	1.22×About typical	8,411	$19,624	66
Architectural, engineering and related services	357	8.6	2.48×More than typical	19,373	$118,479	385
Offices of physicians	318	7.7	1.19×About typical	4,659	$97,618	355
Religious organizations	279	6.7	1.22×About typical	3,252	$24,127	—
Computer systems design and related services	270	6.5	1.51×More than typical	10,780	$108,391	397
Services to buildings and dwellings	260	6.3	0.93×About typical	2,339	$36,060	2,360
Full-service restaurants	247	6	0.78×Fewer than typical	6,991	$25,203	51
Management, scientific and technical consulting	247	6	0.89×About typical	3,633	$101,533	1,343

Rank places for an industry Open Madison County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 413,411 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 Hazel Green, Alabama: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

4.7KFY2017
9.4KFY2018
-8KFY2019
2.3KFY2020
0FY2021
875.8KFY2022
242.4KFY2023
-1MFY2024
2.9KFY2025

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 Hazel Green, Alabama, so they do not add up across cities.

Hazel Green, Alabama's figures are part of those of Madison County, AL ($10.9B 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: Hazel Green is mostly in Madison County.

See federal money in Madison 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.

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

House

Dale W. StrongR-AL-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 2.5%

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.

Madison County74100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Huntsville, AL72

Other cities and towns in Madison 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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