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Insurance agencies in Cherokee County, AL
How Cherokee County, AL compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 86 out of 100: High
Ranked #117 of 2,272 scored counties
#6 of 54 scored counties in Alabama
- Listings
- 12
- 5 chain locations (42%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $28.7M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,816 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.4M
- 90% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.8
- 24% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 26,413
- +5.8% since 2020
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What this means
Cherokee County scores 86 (high) on the Groundwork market score for insurance agencies, ranking #117 of 2,272 scored counties and #6 of 54 scored counties in Alabama. That puts it in the top 10% of counties for insurance agencies.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 insurance agencies in Cherokee County. 5 of them (42%) are chain locations, against 21% across the U.S. That comes to 11.8 for every 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Cherokee County comes to about $28.7M a year: $2,816 per household, 44% above the U.S. average. That is about $2.4M of household spending for each agency on map listings, 90% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Cherokee County in 2023. That is one for every 1,699 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Population estimates put the population change in Cherokee County from 2020 to 2025 at +5.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Cherokee County 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 | Cherokee County | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 11.8 | 16.2 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $2.4M | $1.6M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,699 | 1,150 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.8% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,816 | $2,568 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $53,863 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 86 | 74 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 6
- Employees, 2023
- 26
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 125 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 23The 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 26,413+5.8% since 2020
- Households
- 10,192
- Median age
- 47.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 81%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 554 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 46
- Median household income
- $53,863+28.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $76,789
- Median home value
- $179,700
- Jobs located here
- 5,279
- Daytime population
- 21,170Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Alabama
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Chilton County, AL | 92 | 16 | 9.0 | $3.2M | +5.9% | #33 of 2,272 |
| 2St. Clair County, AL | 91 | 41 | 11.7 | $2.5M | +7.1% | #51 of 2,272 |
| 3Lawrence County, AL | 90 | 11 | 8.1 | $3.8M | +2.3% | #54 of 2,272 |
| 4Randolph County, AL | 90 | 7 | 7.6 | $3.7M | +4.8% | #55 of 2,272 |
| 5Elmore County, AL | 89 | 29 | 8.8 | $3.2M | +4.2% | #69 of 2,272 |
| 6Cherokee County, AL | 86 | 12 | 11.8 | $2.4M | +5.8% | #117 of 2,272 |
| 7Bibb County, AL | 85 | 5 | 6.5 | $4.4M | +0.4% | #122 of 2,272 |
| 8Blount County, AL | 85 | 24 | 10.8 | $2.7M | +1.8% | #131 of 2,272 |
| 9Limestone County, AL | 85 | 53 | 12.9 | $2.2M | +18.0% | #135 of 2,272 |
| 10Jackson County, AL | 84 | 24 | 11.0 | $2.5M | +3.3% | #146 of 2,272 |
Other business types in Cherokee County
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Cherokee County, AL?
There are 12 insurance agencies on map listings in Cherokee County as of September 2026. 5 of them (42%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Cherokee County, AL spend on vehicle insurance?
About $28.7M a year, or $2,816 per household. That is 44% above the U.S. average (an index of 144, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $2.4M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 10,192 households in Cherokee County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Cherokee County, AL compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Cherokee County has 11.8 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 24% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $2.4M, 90% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the national ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Cherokee County would have about 23, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,699 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Cherokee County, AL growing?
Population estimates put Cherokee County at 26,413 people in 2025, up 5.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 10,192 households. The median household income in Cherokee County is $53,863 a year, 33% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 28.5% 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. Cherokee County scores 86 for insurance agencies (high), #117 of 2,272 scored counties.
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