City · Morgan County, Alabama

Trinity, Alabama

Trinity is a city in Morgan County, Alabama, part of the Decatur, AL metro area. It has 2,561 residents. Trinity, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,572 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #66 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), pharmacies (high) and poverty rate (low). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and firearm deaths (high).

32Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,572 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #66 of 319 in AL
Population: 2,561 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 496.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 0176872

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety15#13,267/15,637
Economy87#2,102/15,631
Housing86#2,093/14,977
Health28#11,210/15,609
Healthcare32#10,617/15,650
Environment55#7,000/15,453
Education15#13,280/15,649
Infrastructure45#8,651/15,650
Community19#12,631/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,362/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Trinity, Alabama ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Morgan 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 · low0.27%
98/100Alabama 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 StatisticsMorgan County value
Poverty rate · low3.1%
92/100Alabama 15.2%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Child care cost burden · low21.2%
91/100Alabama 25.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.357
86/100Alabama 0.479United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value

Weaknesses

Restaurants and bars · low5.3 /10k
13/100Alabama 6.9 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorgan County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low2.3 /10k
15/100Alabama 3.3 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMorgan County value
Firearm deaths · high20.0 /100k
16/100Alabama 21.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMorgan County value
Premature death · high11,373 /100k
17/100Alabama 11,613 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value
Life expectancy · low73.9 yrs
17/100Alabama 73.8 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMorgan County value
Homicide rate · high6.8 /100k
18/100Alabama 9.8 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataMorgan County value

Trends

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

New homes permittedImproving
1.6 /1k (2021) → 7.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+388%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
40.5% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−41 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
21.8% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$60,691 (2015-2019) → $100,929 (2020-2024)
+66%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
15.9% (2015-2019) → 3.1% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.2% (2015-2019) → 93.2% (2020-2024)
+9.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Trinity, Alabama improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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+66%$60,691 → $100,929

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Trinity, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.5 min2015-2019	21.5 min2020-2024	−2.1 min	Within the margin of error	71%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.3%2015-2019	18.9%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Broadband subscriptions	84.2%2015-2019	93.2%2020-2024	+9.1 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Effective property tax rate	0.39%2015-2019	0.27%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	39%
High school diploma or higher	91.2%2015-2019	92.7%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	64%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3942015-2019	0.3572020-2024	−0.037	Within the margin of error	78%
Median household income	$60,6912015-2019	$100,9292020-2024	+66%	Improved	93%
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 Trinity, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Trinity, 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, Trinity, Alabama itself moved +6.9 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

2,561 residents (±20)

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

930 households (±116)

Trinity, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k9.4%†87
$25k–50k17%†156
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

930 households (±116)

Trinity, Alabama
Alabama share

Own92%855
Rent8.1%†75

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

1,225 workers (±152)

Trinity, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone93%1,136
Carpool4.1%†50
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 Decatur, 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 Morgan County, the county holding most of Trinity's residents.

Morgan County has 2,684 employer establishments, 214 for every 10,000 residents (0.86× the US rate of 248; 1.04× Alabama's), with 47,947 paid employees at an average annual pay of $57,673. The Census Bureau also counts 8,759 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,684; 8,759 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 214; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 47,947
Average annual pay: $57,673; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	218	17.4	0.83×About typical	1,851	$62,003	259
Specialty trade contractors	204	16.3	1.05×About typical	2,751	$61,977	898
Restaurants and other eating places	191	15.2	0.83×About typical	4,083	$19,889	47
Religious organizations	119	9.5	1.71×More than typical	949	$23,695	—
Limited-service restaurants	110	8.8	1.09×About typical	2,280	$18,715	18
Building equipment contractors	105	8.4	1.39×More than typical	2,141	$63,771	179
Gasoline stations	86	6.9	2.12×More than typical	417	$27,492	5
Offices of physicians	76	6.1	0.94×About typical	627	$86,217	43
Lessors of real estate	73	5.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	206	$38,675	780
Construction of buildings	64	5.1	0.67×Fewer than typical	855	$87,854	356
Full-service restaurants	61	4.9	0.63×Fewer than typical	1,560	$22,029	15
Offices of other health practitioners	59	4.7	0.77×Fewer than typical	361	$47,435	106

Rank places for an industry Open Morgan County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 125,402 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 $375.9K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Trinity, Alabama: $147 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $375.9K; −62% vs FY2025
Per resident: $147; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.7%; 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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$377.7K100%
Agricultural Marketing Service$10.4K2.8%
Department of Veterans Affairs$2,5220.7%

Top recipients

GSE INC$377.7K100%
ARDENT MILLS LLC$10.4K2.8%
HANGER PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS INC$2,2010.6%
NORTH AMERICA FIRE EQUIPMENT CO INC$2770.1%
A. J. ASSOCIATES MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING CO. INC.-$14.7K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

316.4KFY2017
9.1KFY2018
54.2KFY2019
56.4KFY2020
148.9KFY2021
813.3KFY2022
964.9KFY2023
964.1KFY2024
991.9KFY2025
375.9KFY2026

What was bought

Professional services$377.7K97%
Other equipment & supplies$10.7K2.7%
Health & medical$2,2010.6%

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$377.7K100%
Grain and oilseed milling · 3112$10.4K2.8%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$2,2010.6%
Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing · 3159$3210.1%

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

Trinity, Alabama's figures are part of those of Morgan County, AL and Lawrence County, AL ($13.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.8% of that total.

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

See federal money in Morgan 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.

Trinity, 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.

Morgan County34100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Decatur, AL25

Other cities and towns in Morgan 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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