Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 139,860 58.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 13,198 5.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 73,087 30.8%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 3,795 1.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,750 2.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 425 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 420 0.2%

• Under 18 48,617 20.5%
• 18–24 44,692 18.8%
• 25–44 60,276 25.4%
• 45–64 50,850 21.4%
• 65 and over 33,117 13.9%

Median household income

$67,379

90% interval $63,172–$71,586

+$675 vs AL · 14th of 67

Below poverty line

16.5%

90% interval 14.1%–18.9%

+1.3 pp vs AL · 45th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

+0.29 pp vs. state

County GDP

$14.4B

4.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,659

Establishments

5,557

• Education & health services 28,017 28.4%
• Manufacturing 18,196 18.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 16,367 16.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 12,101 12.3%
• Professional & business services 8,116 8.2%
• Construction 5,031 5.1%
• Financial activities 3,513 3.6%
• Public administration 3,325 3.4%
• Other services 2,050 2.1%
• Natural resources & mining 1,338 1.4%
• Information 454 0.5%
• Unclassified 5 0.0%

Home ownership

61.4%

−8.8 pp vs AL · 64th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,037

+$30 vs AL · 11th of 67

Owner-occupied

55,297

Renter-occupied

34,755

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $111,498/yr) pays 5.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,402/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 50,724 59.8%
• Democratic 33,399 39.3%
• Other / third-party 756 0.9%

• Spanish 8,449 3.8%
• German or other West Germanic 1,038 0.5%
• Chinese 1,019 0.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 573 0.3%
• Arabic 371 0.2%
• Vietnamese 291 0.1%
• Korean 251 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 246 0.1%
• Tagalog 132 0.1%

Households

90,052

Family households

54,229

60.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

16,068

29.6% of families

Single-mother families

6,168

11.4% of families

Veterans

11,674

6.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 77,989 34.4%
• Black Protestant 13,642 6.0%
• Mainline Protestant 10,076 4.4%
• Catholic 6,522 2.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,506 1.5%

Health insured

93.3%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

6.7%

±0.6 pp

65th of 67

With a disability

13.2%

±0.7 pp

65th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

32.1%

±1.3 pp

+3.7 pp vs AL · 7th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.6%

90% interval 7.8%–9.4% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

6th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

7 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 alacourt.gov; counts for the 34th, 36th, and 41st circuits are approximate (single-county rural circuits typically carry 1 judge per Ala. Code § 12-17-23).)

Court seats

Tuscaloosa

Traffic fatalities

35

18.52 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

35

Account collection was the largest civil litigation category, at 23.0% of 1,529 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 18.4%.

• Account collection 352 23.0%
• Contract, ejectment and seizure 296 19.4%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 281 18.4%
• Other civil 265 17.3%
• Negligence, general 74 4.8%
• Equity, non-damage 52 3.4%

A further 194 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.