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Collision repair and body shops in Lowndes County, AL

How Lowndes County, AL compares with other counties and the U.S. for collision repair and body shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

Listings
0
None on the map
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$3.5M
On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $815 a household
Spending per listing
n/a
Listings per 10k households
0.0
Population, 2025
9,359
−9.0% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in Lowndes County comes to about $3.5M a year: $815 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only collision repair and body shops.

Map listings as of September 2026 show no collision repair and body shops in Lowndes County. At the national ratio of collision repair and body shops to household spending, Lowndes County would have about 1, against none on map listings.

Official counts don’t publish a figure for automotive body, paint and interior repair in Lowndes County, since they leave out counts under 3.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Lowndes County declined 9.0%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

How Lowndes County compares

The same measures for Alabama and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the collision repair and body shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Collision repair and body shops in Lowndes County, AL compared with Alabama and the U.S.
MeasureLowndes CountyAlabamaU.S.
Listings per 10k households0.02.93.1
Spending per listingn/a$3.2M$3.1M
Households per official establishmentn/a3,5863,689
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+4.5%−0.8%
Population growth, 2020–2025−9.0%+3.2%+3.1%
Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs$815$929$958
Median household income$37,052$63,999$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored49

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
n/a
Employees, 2023
n/a
Annual payroll, 2023
n/a
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
0
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
1The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
0
Amount
$0

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as automotive body, paint and interior repair in Lowndes County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in Lowndes County

Population, 2025 estimate
9,359−9.0% since 2020
Households
4,284
Median age
41.4
Homes lived in by their owners
78%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
716 sq. mi.
People per square mile
14
Median household income
$37,052
Average household income
$60,874
Median home value
$86,300
Jobs located here
3,065
Daytime population
9,987Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Collision repair and body shops across Alabama

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The highest-scoring counties in Alabama for collision repair and body shops, numbered among those based in Alabama, with Lowndes County marked.

Top counties in Alabama

Counties in Alabama ranked for collision repair and body shops by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1St. Clair County, AL8282.3$4.5M+7.1%#54 of 1,327
2Madison County, AL77321.9$4.9M+11.0%#102 of 1,327
3Autauga County, AL7452.2$4.5M+5.1%#141 of 1,327
4Baldwin County, AL73171.7$5.6M+14.8%#150 of 1,327
5Lee County, AL73162.3$4.1M+8.6%#158 of 1,327
6Chilton County, AL7052.8$3.6M+5.9%#222 of 1,327
7Limestone County, AL70133.2$3.3M+18.0%#225 of 1,327
8Blount County, AL6852.3$4.7M+1.8%#253 of 1,327
9Shelby County, AL66232.6$4M+6.5%#298 of 1,327
10Tuscaloosa County, AL65232.6$3.6M+3.8%#321 of 1,327
Lowndes County, ALNot scored00.0n/a−9.0%

Other business types in Lowndes County

None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

Questions

How many collision repair and body shops are in Lowndes County, AL?

There are no collision repair and body shops on map listings in Lowndes County as of September 2026. The listings count collision repair and auto body shops. No official count is published for automotive body, paint and interior repair in Lowndes County: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in Lowndes County, AL spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?

About $3.5M a year, or $815 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which collision repair and body shops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,284 households in Lowndes County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Lowndes County, AL compare with the U.S. for collision repair and body shops?

Lowndes County has no collision repair and body shops on map listings. At the U.S. ratio of collision repair and body shops to household spending, Lowndes County would have about 1, against none on map listings.

How fast is Lowndes County, AL growing?

Population estimates put Lowndes County at 9,359 people in 2025, down 9.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,284 households. Median household income in Lowndes County is $37,052, 54% below the U.S. median of $80,734.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.

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How the score works · Top markets for collision repair and body shops · All 56 business types in Lowndes County

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