City · Covington County, Alabama

Opp, Alabama

Opp is a city in Covington County, Alabama. It has 6,709 residents. Opp, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,361 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #302 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), pharmacies (high) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on preventable hospital stays (high), firearm deaths (high) and hospital quality rating (low).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,361 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #302 of 319 in AL
Population: 6,709 (2020-2024)
Land area: 24 mi²
Density: 283.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 0157120

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety10#13,997/15,637
Economy6#14,671/15,631
Housing58#6,284/14,977
Health6#14,706/15,609
Healthcare5#14,936/15,650
Environment29#11,002/15,453
Education5#14,789/15,649
Infrastructure2#15,278/15,650
Community14#13,472/15,651
Leisure & amenities16#13,158/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Opp, Alabama ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Covington 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 · high3.4 /10k
98/100Alabama 2.3 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCovington County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCovington County value
Job growth · high1.4%
83/100Alabama 0.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataCovington County value
Comfortable days · high30.9%
82/100Alabama 28.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCovington County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Alabama 0 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCovington County value

Weaknesses

Preventable hospital stays · high5,840 /100k
1/100Alabama 3,481 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCovington County value
Firearm deaths · high34.3 /100k
1/100Alabama 21.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCovington County value
Hospital quality rating · low1.5
3/100Alabama 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCovington County value
Child poverty rate · high38.9%
4/100Alabama 20.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Broadband subscriptions · low82.1%
5/100Alabama 87.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Poverty rate · high26.3%
5/100Alabama 15.2%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.6% (2015-2019) → 52.5% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.3 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.4% (2015-2019) → 82.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.1% (2015-2019) → 31.6% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Average commute timeWorsening
22.0 min (2015-2019) → 27.4 min (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Unemployment rateImproving
9.7% (2015-2019) → 5.2% (2020-2024)
−4.5 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, Opp, Alabama improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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

Broadband+14 points68.4% → 82.0%

Declined1

Rent burden+21 points31.6% → 52.5%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Opp, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.0 min2015-2019	27.4 min2020-2024	+5.4 min	Within the margin of error	9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.5%2015-2019	10.1%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Broadband subscriptions	68.4%2015-2019	82.0%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	75%
Child poverty rate	38.2%2015-2019	38.9%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Effective property tax rate	0.25%2015-2019	0.23%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	19%
High school diploma or higher	83.2%2015-2019	85.0%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	55%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4442015-2019	0.4732020-2024	+0.029	Within the margin of error	28%
Median household income	$36,6092015-2019	$41,3472020-2024	+13%	Within the margin of error	20%
Poverty rate	22.8%2015-2019	26.3%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Rent as share of income	24.1%2015-2019	31.6%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Rent-burdened households	31.6%2015-2019	52.5%2020-2024	+21 points	Declined	8%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.5%2015-2019	17.5%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	14%

“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 Opp, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Opp, 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, Opp, Alabama itself moved −16.3 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

6,709 residents (±37)

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

2,707 households (±188)

Opp, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k33%885
$25k–50k26%697
$50k–75k18%†477

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,707 households (±188)

Opp, Alabama
Alabama share

Own71%1,928
Rent29%779

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,581 workers (±278)

Opp, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone80%2,060
Carpool12%†309
Public transit0.3%†8

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 Covington County, the county holding most of Opp's residents.

Covington County has 864 employer establishments, 228 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 1.10× Alabama's), with 9,841 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,206. The Census Bureau also counts 2,441 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 864; 2,441 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 228; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 9,841
Average annual pay: $44,206; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	68	17.9	0.86×About typical	563	$59,641	75
Restaurants and other eating places	57	15	0.82×About typical	957	$16,629	13
Religious organizations	40	10.5	1.90×More than typical	197	$23,797	—
Gasoline stations	37	9.8	3.01×More than typical	235	$26,243	—
Limited-service restaurants	35	9.2	1.15×About typical	679	$15,127	5
Specialty trade contractors	31	8.2	0.53×Fewer than typical	130	$47,938	270
Lessors of real estate	27	7.1	0.58×Fewer than typical	63	$28,952	155
Automotive repair and maintenance	26	6.9	1.36×More than typical	135	$32,681	37
Offices of physicians	25	6.6	1.02×About typical	200	$83,900	10
Construction of buildings	24	6.3	0.84×About typical	119	$48,487	93
Heavy and civil engineering construction	23	6.1	5.29×More than typical	184	$58,891	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	20	5.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	132	$25,265	303

Rank places for an industry Open Covington County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 37,940 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 Opp, 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

2.1KFY2017
7.6KFY2018
4.2KFY2019
2.7KFY2020

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

Opp, Alabama's figures are part of those of Covington County, AL ($4.1M 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: Opp is mostly in Covington County.

See federal money in Covington 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.

Opp, 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.

Covington County8100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Covington 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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