Town · Shelby County, Alabama

Vincent, Alabama

Vincent is a town in Shelby County, Alabama, part of the Birmingham, AL metro area. It has 2,050 residents. Vincent, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 31 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,759 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #68 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), child care cost burden (low) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on broadband subscriptions (low), unemployment rate (high) and child poverty rate (high).

31Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,759 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #68 of 319 in AL
Population: 2,050 (2020-2024)
Land area: 21 mi²
Density: 99.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 0179008

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.

Safety72#4,352/15,637
Economy21#12,399/15,631
Housing85#2,212/14,977
Health45#8,547/15,609
Healthcare40#9,416/15,650
Environment40#9,220/15,453
Education11#13,889/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,924/15,650
Community41#9,306/15,651
Leisure & amenities34#10,252/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Vincent, Alabama ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Shelby 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 · low0.26%
98/100Alabama 0.37%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Child care cost burden · low18.4%
98/100Alabama 25.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShelby County value
Rent as share of income · low18.9%
96/100Alabama 29.5%United States 30.6%2019-2023U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Alabama 11.8United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationShelby County value
Pharmacies · high2.5 /10k
89/100Alabama 2.3 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsShelby County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteShelby County value

Weaknesses

Broadband subscriptions · low69.7%
0/100Alabama 87.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Unemployment rate · high10.5%
8/100Alabama 2.8%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Child poverty rate · high38.9%
9/100Alabama 20.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Alabama 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesShelby County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.496
10/100Alabama 0.479United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.0 µg/m³
12/100Alabama 8.6 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyShelby County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,918 (2015-2019) → 2,050 (2020-2024)
+6.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
0.6 /1k (2021) → 1.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+76%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$33,333 (2015-2019) → $52,813 (2020-2024)
+58%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.5% (2015-2019) → 44.4% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
76.1% (2015-2019) → 82.2% (2020-2024)
+6.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
7.8% (2015-2019) → 13.7% (2020-2024)
+5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Vincent, Alabama improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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.

Improved2

Household income+58%$33,333 → $52,813
Bachelor's++5.9 points7.8% → 13.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Vincent, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.7 min2015-2019	34.9 min2020-2024	+5.2 min	Within the margin of error	9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.8%2015-2019	13.7%2020-2024	+5.9 points	Improved	74%
Broadband subscriptions	68.4%2015-2019	69.7%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Child poverty rate	39.0%2015-2019	38.9%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Effective property tax rate	0.29%2015-2019	0.26%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	22%
High school diploma or higher	76.1%2015-2019	82.2%2020-2024	+6.1 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Home price to income ratio	2.7×2015-2019	3.2×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	51%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4712015-2019	0.4962020-2024	+0.026	Within the margin of error	29%
Median household income	$33,3332015-2019	$52,8132020-2024	+58%	Improved	90%
Poverty rate	24.5%2015-2019	21.7%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.3%2015-2019	12.7%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	73%

“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 Vincent, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Vincent, 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, Vincent, Alabama itself moved −1.3 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

2,050 residents (±389)

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

801 households (±135)

Vincent, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k27%†213
$25k–50k22%†180
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

801 households (±135)

Vincent, Alabama
Alabama share

Own84%673
Rent16%†128

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+7.6 points).

† 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

813 workers (±200)

Vincent, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone87%710
Carpool8.6%†70
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 Birmingham, 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 Shelby County, the county holding most of Vincent's residents.

Shelby County has 5,610 employer establishments, 240 for every 10,000 residents (0.97× the US rate of 248; 1.16× Alabama's), with 87,718 paid employees at an average annual pay of $62,569. The Census Bureau also counts 22,140 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 5,610; 22,140 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 240; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 87,718
Average annual pay: $62,569; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	438	18.8	0.90×About typical	5,348	$66,944	1,000
Restaurants and other eating places	374	16	0.87×About typical	8,104	$21,440	111
Specialty trade contractors	341	14.6	0.94×About typical	5,102	$68,269	1,458
Lessors of real estate	283	12.1	0.98×About typical	1,289	$61,319	2,332
Services to buildings and dwellings	206	8.8	1.31×More than typical	2,520	$43,560	1,295
Limited-service restaurants	201	8.6	1.07×About typical	4,574	$20,003	44
Construction of buildings	198	8.5	1.12×About typical	1,525	$84,687	921
Religious organizations	160	6.9	1.24×About typical	2,124	$28,751	—
Building equipment contractors	159	6.8	1.13×About typical	3,007	$67,195	303
Management, scientific and technical consulting	156	6.7	1.00×About typical	533	$64,859	898
Insurance agencies and brokerages	146	6.3	1.42×More than typical	620	$73,608	410
Offices of other health practitioners	142	6.1	1.00×About typical	928	$54,164	478

Rank places for an industry Open Shelby County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 233,488 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 Vincent, 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

-8.2KFY2020
-267.8FY2021

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

Vincent, Alabama's figures are part of those of Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL and Talladega County, AL ($153.8M 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: Vincent is mostly in Shelby County.

See federal money in Shelby 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.

Vincent, Alabama is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Shelby County80100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Birmingham, AL41

Other cities and towns in Shelby 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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