Funeral services · Metro area · Alabama
Funeral homes in the Huntsville, AL metro area
The funeral homes in the Huntsville, AL metro area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other metro areas.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 72 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #64 of 377 scored metro areas
#2 of 12 scored metro areas based in Alabama
- Listings
- 22
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 18
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $26.4M
- On funerals · $128 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.2M
- 77% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.1
- 48% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 556,444
- +12.5% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on funerals in the Huntsville metro area comes to about $26.4M a year: $128 per household, 10% below the U.S. average. Spread across 22 funeral homes, that is $1.2M per home, 77% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
The Huntsville metro area has 22 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 1.1, 48% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Huntsville metro area in 2023. That is one for every 11,444 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in the Huntsville metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +12.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For funeral homes, the Huntsville metro area has a Groundwork market score of 72 (upper middle): #64 of 377 scored metro areas and #2 of 12 scored metro areas based in Alabama. That puts it in the top quarter of metro areas.
How the Huntsville metro area compares
The same measures for Alabama and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Huntsville metro area | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.1 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.2M | $496K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 11,444 | 7,008 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.9% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +12.5% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $128 | $139 | $143 |
| Median household income | $85,989 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 72 | 37 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 18
- Employees, 2023
- 214
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $7.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 220 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 39The 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 funeral homes and funeral services in the Huntsville metro area, 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 the Huntsville metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 556,444+12.5% since 2020
- Households
- 205,984
- Median age
- 39.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,365 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 379
- Median household income
- $85,989+33.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $114,012
- Median home value
- $295,200
- Jobs located here
- 250,093
- Daytime population
- 546,361Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Alabama
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL | 87 | 13 | 1.3 | $1.2M | +14.8% | #13 of 377 |
| 2Huntsville, AL | 72 | 22 | 1.1 | $1.2M | +12.5% | #64 of 377 |
| 3Auburn-Opelika, AL | 66 | 9 | 1.2 | $990K | +7.1% | #87 of 377 |
| 4Tuscaloosa, AL | 46 | 19 | 1.8 | $692K | +2.9% | #199 of 377 |
| 5Decatur, AL | 44 | 15 | 2.4 | $600K | +2.5% | #214 of 377 |
| 6Mobile, AL | 42 | 37 | 2.3 | $591K | −0.7% | #234 of 377 |
| 7Montgomery, AL | 39 | 32 | 2.1 | $626K | +0.9% | #250 of 377 |
| 8Birmingham, AL | 39 | 111 | 2.4 | $572K | +1.4% | #254 of 377 |
| 9Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL | 39 | 17 | 2.7 | $555K | +3.5% | #255 of 377 |
| 10Gadsden, AL | 36 | 14 | 3.6 | $429K | +0.4% | #277 of 377 |
Other business types in the Huntsville metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Huntsville, AL metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 22 funeral homes in the Huntsville metro area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 18 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Huntsville, AL metro area spend on funerals?
About $26.4M a year, or $128 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 22 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $1.2M per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 205,984 households in the Huntsville metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Huntsville, AL metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Huntsville metro area has 1.1 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 48% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $1.2M, 77% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the U.S. ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Huntsville metro area would have about 39, against 22 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 11,444 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Huntsville, AL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Huntsville metro area at 556,444 people in 2025, up 12.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 205,984 households. The median household income in the Huntsville metro area is $85,989 a year, 7% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 33.4% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
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 Huntsville metro area scores 72 for funeral homes (upper middle), #64 of 377 scored metro areas.
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