City · Crenshaw County, Alabama

Luverne, Alabama

Luverne is a city in Crenshaw County, Alabama. It has 2,694 residents. Luverne, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 10 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,042 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #196 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on drug overdose deaths (low), effective property tax rate (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), broadband subscriptions (low) and job growth (low).

10Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,042 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #196 of 319 in AL
Population: 2,694 (2020-2024)
Land area: 16 mi²
Density: 172.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 0144728

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety66#5,314/15,637
Economy3#15,139/15,631
Housing70#4,557/14,977
Health18#12,844/15,609
Healthcare8#14,440/15,650
Environment40#9,304/15,453
Education13#13,657/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,542/15,650
Community10#14,048/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,806/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Alabama 16.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCrenshaw County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.25%
98/100Alabama 0.37%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Alabama 9.8 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCrenshaw County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low108 min
93/100Alabama 155 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCrenshaw County value
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
87/100Alabama 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesCrenshaw County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrenshaw County value

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low14.8%
1/100Alabama 61.4%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrenshaw County value
Broadband subscriptions · low73.1%
1/100Alabama 87.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Job growth · low-5.5%
1/100Alabama 0.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataCrenshaw County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.8 /10k
2/100Alabama 3.3 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCrenshaw County value
Primary care physicians · low15 /100k
2/100Alabama 65 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrenshaw County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Alabama 3.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyCrenshaw County value

Trends

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

Child poverty rateWorsening
17.0% (2015-2019) → 42.4% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 3.9× (2020-2024)
+116%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
30.6% (2015-2019) → 43.3% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateWorsening
13.4% (2015-2019) → 25.1% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
77.2% (2015-2019) → 86.4% (2020-2024)
+9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
20.2% (2015-2019) → 24.4% (2020-2024)
+4.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Luverne, Alabama improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 9 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined4

Child poverty+25 points17.0% → 42.4%
Poverty+12 points13.4% → 25.1%
Price / income+2.1×1.8× → 3.9×
Inequality+0.0800.418 → 0.498

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Luverne, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.5 min2015-2019	26.8 min2020-2024	+2.4 min	Within the margin of error	24%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.2%2015-2019	19.6%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	72.2%2015-2019	73.1%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Child poverty rate	17.0%2015-2019	42.4%2020-2024	+25 points	Declined	3%
Effective property tax rate	0.33%2015-2019	0.25%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	31%
High school diploma or higher	77.2%2015-2019	86.4%2020-2024	+9.2 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	3.9×2020-2024	+2.1×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4182015-2019	0.4982020-2024	+0.080	Declined	8%
Median household income	$45,6712015-2019	$43,2692020-2024	−5.3%	Within the margin of error	5%
Poverty rate	13.4%2015-2019	25.1%2020-2024	+12 points	Declined	3%
Rent as share of income	20.2%2015-2019	24.4%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Rent-burdened households	30.6%2015-2019	43.3%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.1%2015-2019	10.7%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	21%

“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 Luverne, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Luverne, 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, Luverne, Alabama itself moved −18 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

2,694 residents (±28)

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

1,148 households (±120)

Luverne, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k36%†408
$25k–50k18%†208
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,148 households (±120)

Luverne, Alabama
Alabama share

Own53%613
Rent47%535

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,031 workers (±151)

Luverne, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone82%850
Carpool14%†143
Public transit0.0%0

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 Crenshaw County, the county holding most of Luverne's residents.

Crenshaw County has 221 employer establishments, 168 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.81× Alabama's), with 2,862 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,225. The Census Bureau also counts 875 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 221; 875 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 168; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 2,862
Average annual pay: $48,225; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	20	15.2	3.01×More than typical	103	$60,835	60
Specialty trade contractors	17	12.9	0.83×About typical	113	$49,903	75
Religious organizations	12	9.1	1.64×More than typical	43	$25,953	—
Building equipment contractors	11	8.4	1.39×More than typical	94	$49,319	18
Gasoline stations	10	7.6	2.34×More than typical	63	$21,810	—
Restaurants and other eating places	10	7.6	0.41×Fewer than typical	209	$15,234	8
Ambulatory health care services	9	6.8	0.33×Too few to compare	63	$44,222	32
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	6.8	1.36×Too few to compare	36	$30,944	20
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	9	6.8	2.07×Too few to compare	82	$50,793	10
Lessors of real estate	7	5.3	0.43×Too few to compare	6	$32,333	30
Limited-service restaurants	7	5.3	0.66×Too few to compare	144	$15,528	—
General merchandise stores	6	4.6	2.58×Too few to compare	47	$22,638	6

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 13,156 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 Luverne, 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

91.3FY2017

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

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

See federal money in Crenshaw 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.

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

House

Shomari FiguresD-AL-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 94%Missed 1.9%

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.

Crenshaw County12100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Crenshaw 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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