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Insurance agencies in Monroe County, AL
How Monroe 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 69 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #492 of 2,272 scored counties
#27 of 54 scored counties in Alabama
- Listings
- 7
- 2 chain locations (29%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $18.4M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,501 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.6M
- 2.1 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 9.5
- 39% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 18,965
- −3.8% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 7 insurance agencies in Monroe County. Of those, 2 are chain locations, or 29%, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 9.5, 39% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Monroe County comes to about $18.4M a year: $2,501 per household, 28% above the U.S. average. That is about $2.6M of household spending for each agency on map listings, 2.1 times the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Monroe County was 4 in 2023. That is one for every 1,841 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Population estimates show Monroe County declined 3.8% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. Monroe County scores 69 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for insurance agencies, ranking #492 of 2,272 scored counties and #27 of 54 scored counties in Alabama. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Monroe 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 | Monroe County | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 9.5 | 16.2 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $2.6M | $1.6M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,841 | 1,150 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.8% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,501 | $2,568 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $42,292 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 69 | 74 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 13
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $397K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 72 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 15The 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 Monroe 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 Monroe County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 18,965−3.8% since 2020
- Households
- 7,363
- Median age
- 44.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 1,026 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 19
- Median household income
- $42,292+38.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $58,409
- Median home value
- $120,600
- Jobs located here
- 5,784
- Daytime population
- 17,349Residents 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 |
| 27Monroe County, AL | 69 | 7 | 9.5 | $2.6M | −3.8% | #492 of 2,272 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Monroe County, AL?
There are 7 insurance agencies on map listings in Monroe County as of September 2026. 2 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Monroe County, AL spend on vehicle insurance?
About $18.4M a year, or $2,501 per household. That is 28% above the U.S. average (an index of 128, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 7 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $2.6M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 7,363 households in Monroe County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Monroe County, AL compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Monroe County has 9.5 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 39% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $2.6M, 2.1 times the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the national ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Monroe County would have about 15, against 7 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,841 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Monroe County, AL growing?
Population estimates put Monroe County at 18,965 people in 2025, down 3.8% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 7,363 households. The median household income in Monroe County is $42,292 a year, 48% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 38.9% 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. Monroe County scores 69 for insurance agencies (upper middle), #492 of 2,272 scored counties.
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