Birmingham, AL — income, home value, property tax, and sales tax.
In ZIP code 35254, near Birmingham, the average person earns just $4,941 a year, so daily expenses consume nearly everything. A county property tax rate of 0.59% is tame on paper, but any bill looms large against such thin earnings. Sales tax of 6.00% adds a little more to each purchase, pinching budgets that already have little slack. With so few dollars per person, housing, food, and transportation must be weighed carefully, and saving is hard. Living here demands strict attention to what comes in and what goes out each month.