Auto · Small-town market · Alabama
Insurance agencies in the Alexander City, AL area
How the Alexander City, AL area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 66 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #137 of 537 scored small-town markets
#8 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Alabama
- Listings
- 26
- 6 chain locations (23%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $44.5M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,604 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.7M
- 36% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 15.2
- 3% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 40,953
- −0.8% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 26 insurance agencies in the Alexander City area. Chain locations make up 23% of them, against 21% across the U.S. That comes to 15.2 for every 10,000 households, 3% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in the Alexander City area comes to about $44.5M a year: $2,604 per household, 33% above the U.S. average. Spread across 26 insurance agencies, that is $1.7M per agency, 36% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Alexander City area in 2023. That is one for every 1,314 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Alexander City area declined 0.8%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for insurance agencies in the Alexander City area is 66 (upper middle), #137 of 537 scored small-town markets and #8 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Alabama.
How the Alexander City area compares
The same measures for Alabama and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Alexander City area | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 15.2 | 16.2 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,314 | 1,150 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.8% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,604 | $2,568 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $59,356 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 66 | 74 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13
- Employees, 2023
- 51
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 266 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 35The 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 insurance agencies and brokerages in the Alexander City 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 Alexander City area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 40,953−0.8% since 2020
- Households
- 17,076
- Median age
- 44.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 717 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 57
- Median household income
- $59,356
- Average household income
- $78,535
- Median home value
- $158,500
- Jobs located here
- 12,620
- Daytime population
- 35,492Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Alabama
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Scottsboro, AL | 91 | 24 | 11.0 | $2.5M | +3.3% | #12 of 537 |
| 2Ozark, AL | 88 | 14 | 7.1 | $3.6M | +1.3% | #17 of 537 |
| 3Fort Payne, AL | 86 | 32 | 12.2 | $2.3M | +3.4% | #29 of 537 |
| 4Talladega-Sylacauga, AL | 84 | 37 | 9.7 | $2.7M | 0.0% | #36 of 537 |
| 5Enterprise, AL | 80 | 27 | 12.9 | $2.1M | +6.3% | #50 of 537 |
| 6Cullman, AL | 79 | 63 | 17.8 | $1.7M | +6.7% | #57 of 537 |
| 7Russellville, AL | 76 | 16 | 13.4 | $2M | +1.1% | #68 of 537 |
| LaGrange, GA-AL | 71 | 59 | 14.6 | $1.7M | +3.0% | #95 of 537 |
| 8Alexander City, AL | 66 | 26 | 15.2 | $1.7M | −0.8% | #137 of 537 |
| 9Albertville, AL | 64 | 82 | 22.5 | $1.2M | +6.0% | #150 of 537 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in the Alexander City, AL area?
There are 26 insurance agencies on map listings in the Alexander City area as of September 2026. 6 of them (23%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in the Alexander City, AL area spend on vehicle insurance?
About $44.5M a year, or $2,604 per household. That is 33% above the U.S. average (an index of 133, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 26 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 17,076 households in the Alexander City area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Alexander City, AL area compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
The Alexander City area has 15.2 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 3% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $1.7M, 36% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the national ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, the Alexander City area would have about 35, against 26 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,314 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is the Alexander City, AL area growing?
Population estimates put the Alexander City area at 40,953 people in 2025, down 0.8% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 17,076 households. The median household income in the Alexander City area is $59,356 a year, 26% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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 Alexander City area scores 66 for insurance agencies (upper middle), #137 of 537 scored small-town markets.
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