Health care · Metro area · Alabama
Urgent care and walk-in clinics in the Gadsden, AL metro area
How the Gadsden, AL metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $37.5M
- On medical and dental services · $950 a household
- Spending per listing
- $37.5M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.3
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 103,886
- +0.4% since 2020
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What this means
At $950 per household (26% below the U.S. average), households in the Gadsden metro area spend about $37.5M a year on medical and dental services. That is about $37.5M of household spending for each clinic on map listings. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only urgent care and walk-in clinics.
There is 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings in the Gadsden metro area as of September 2026. That is 0.3 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Gadsden metro area, since they leave out counts under 3.
Population estimates put the population change in the Gadsden metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +0.4%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, the Gadsden metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Gadsden metro area compares
The same measures for Alabama and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the urgent care and walk-in clinics 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 | Gadsden metro area | Alabama | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Spending per listing | $37.5M | $25.9M | $24.5M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 19,204 | 12,867 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +30.0% | +32.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.4% | +3.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $950 | $1,050 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $54,563 | $63,999 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 51 |
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
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The 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 freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Gadsden 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 Gadsden metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 103,886+0.4% since 2020
- Households
- 39,411
- Median age
- 42.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 535 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 193
- Median household income
- $54,563+22.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $73,295
- Median home value
- $167,100
- Jobs located here
- 33,151
- Daytime population
- 97,399Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Alabama market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Alabama for urgent care and walk-in clinics, numbered among those based in Alabama (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Gadsden metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Alabama
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Huntsville, AL | 53 | 12 | 0.6 | $20.6M | +12.5% | #88 of 197 |
| 2Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL | 50 | 7 | 0.7 | $16M | +14.8% | #102 of 197 |
| 3Birmingham, AL | 40 | 28 | 0.6 | $18.4M | +1.4% | #136 of 197 |
| 4Tuscaloosa, AL | 40 | 6 | 0.6 | $18.1M | +2.9% | #138 of 197 |
| 5Montgomery, AL | 36 | 12 | 0.8 | $13.1M | +0.9% | #156 of 197 |
| Columbus, GA-AL | 20 | 7 | 0.5 | $18.4M | −1.3% | #190 of 197 |
| Gadsden, AL | Not scored | 1 | 0.3 | $37.5M | +0.4% |
Other business types in the Gadsden metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
- Doctors, dentists and clinics19
- Dentists and orthodontists41
- Primary care and pediatrics11
- Urgent care and walk-in clinics
- Chiropractors35
- Physical therapy31
- Optometrists and eye care22
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many urgent care and walk-in clinics are in the Gadsden, AL metro area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic in the Gadsden metro area. The listings count urgent care and walk-in clinics. No official count is published for freestanding emergency and urgent care centers in the Gadsden metro area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Gadsden, AL metro area spend on medical and dental services?
About $37.5M a year, or $950 per household. That is 26% below the U.S. average (an index of 74, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, it comes to $37.5M per clinic. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which urgent care and walk-in clinics share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 39,411 households in the Gadsden metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Gadsden, AL metro area compare with the U.S. for urgent care and walk-in clinics?
The Gadsden metro area has 1 urgent care or walk-in clinic on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of urgent care and walk-in clinics to household spending, the Gadsden metro area would have about 2, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is the Gadsden, AL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Gadsden metro area at 103,886 people in 2025, up 0.4% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 39,411 households. Median household income in the Gadsden metro area is $54,563, 32% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 22.2%, 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 Gadsden metro area has no market score for urgent care and walk-in clinics: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
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