City · Sumter County, Alabama

York, Alabama

York is a city in Sumter County, Alabama. It has 2,056 residents. York, Alabama has a quality-of-life score of 6 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,697 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Alabama it ranks #247 of 319 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), job growth (high) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on adult obesity (high), math scores (low) and mental health providers (low).

6Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,697 of 15,651 cities and towns
Alabama: #247 of 319 in AL
Population: 2,056 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 299.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 0184096

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.

Safety35#10,148/15,637
Economy6#14,626/15,631
Housing60#5,997/14,977
Health14#13,440/15,609
Healthcare4#15,054/15,650
Environment60#6,155/15,453
Education5#14,913/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,813/15,650
Community8#14,354/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,575/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Alabama 17.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSumter County value
Job growth · high8.0%
99/100Alabama 0.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataSumter County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.45%
91/100Alabama 0.37%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Violent crime rate · low81 /100k
91/100Alabama 348 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureSumter County value
Public libraries · high1.7 /10k
89/100Alabama 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesSumter County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Alabama 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value

Weaknesses

Adult obesity · high53.3%
0/100Alabama 40.8%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Math scores · low1.99
0/100Alabama 2.65United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Mental health providers · low17 /100k
1/100Alabama 156 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Reading scores · low2.40
1/100Alabama 2.83United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Traffic deaths · high52.2 /100k
1/100Alabama 19.0 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataSumter County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Alabama 2.3 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSumter County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,529 (2015-2019) → 2,056 (2020-2024)
−19%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
63.0% (2015-2019) → 84.5% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 2.6× (2020-2024)
+61%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Unemployment rateImproving
14.2% (2015-2019) → 4.3% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
82.3% (2015-2019) → 91.9% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
New homes permittedWorsening
1.7 /1k (2021) → 1.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−42%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k

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, York, Alabama improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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+22 points63.0% → 84.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of York, Alabama between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.1 min2015-2019	19.6 min2020-2024	−5.5 min	Within the margin of error	92%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.2%2015-2019	13.2%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Broadband subscriptions	63.0%2015-2019	84.5%2020-2024	+22 points	Improved	92%
Child poverty rate	53.5%2015-2019	55.6%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Effective property tax rate	0.40%2015-2019	0.45%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	9%
High school diploma or higher	82.3%2015-2019	91.9%2020-2024	+9.6 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	22%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4792015-2019	0.4472020-2024	−0.032	Within the margin of error	75%
Median household income	$25,2022015-2019	$30,4892020-2024	+21%	Within the margin of error	35%
Poverty rate	35.9%2015-2019	39.5%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	32.8%2015-2019	39.7%2020-2024	+6.9 points	Within the margin of error	15%

“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 York, Alabama five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of York, 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, York, Alabama itself moved +4.9 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,056 residents (±436)

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

1,022 households (±216)

York, Alabama
Alabama share

Under $25k45%†460
$25k–50k23%†236
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,022 households (±216)

York, Alabama
Alabama share

Own63%639
Rent37%†383

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

798 workers (±245)

York, Alabama
Alabama share

Drive alone90%†716
Carpool0.0%0
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 Sumter County, the county holding most of York's residents.

Sumter County has 204 employer establishments, 174 for every 10,000 residents (0.70× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Alabama's), with 2,597 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,584. The Census Bureau also counts 738 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 204; 738 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 174; US 248 · Alabama 207
Paid employees: 2,597
Average annual pay: $42,584; US $68,342

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

Gasoline stations	15	12.8	3.94×More than typical	62	$18,968	—
Restaurants and other eating places	15	12.8	0.69×Fewer than typical	165	$14,788	3
Religious organizations	13	11.1	1.99×More than typical	38	$12,816	—
Child day care services	12	10.2	4.18×More than typical	136	$10,309	16
General merchandise stores	9	7.7	4.33×Too few to compare	62	$17,839	4
Limited-service restaurants	9	7.7	0.95×Too few to compare	117	$14,188	—
Truck transportation	9	7.7	1.51×Too few to compare	623	$50,348	72
Ambulatory health care services	8	6.8	0.33×Too few to compare	100	$52,880	17
Banks and credit unions	6	5.1	1.58×Too few to compare	32	$42,563	—
Grocery and convenience stores	6	5.1	1.72×Too few to compare	52	$12,019	—
Construction of buildings	5	4.3	0.56×Too few to compare	15	$57,200	8
Specialty trade contractors	5	4.3	0.27×Too few to compare	8	$29,375	38

Rank places for an industry Open Sumter County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 11,757 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Sumter 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.

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

House

Terri A. SewellD-AL-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 95%Missed 1.6%

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.

Sumter County5100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Sumter 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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