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NXS-GRX-USA · Northern America · Regions

Alabama

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
5,160,117
people (GHSL 2025)
133,964 km²
area
1.5%
of United States of America
67
units inside

01Map

Inside Alabama

The 67 ADM2 units of Alabama.

FIG 1 · 67 units inside Alabama
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

5,160,117

1.5% of United States of America.

People · WorldPop 2025

4,738,190

-8% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

133,964 km²

39 people per km².

કોડ

US-AL

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

55,255

people on land at or below 10 m, 1.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

67 units inside Alabama

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Autauga – 63,594 60,627 1,562.14 41 1.2% 0
Baldwin – 176,877 221,121 4,359.13 41 3.4% 14,010
Barbour – 23,983 18,664 2,349.45 10 0.5% 0
Bibb – 23,621 21,241 1,623.25 15 0.5% 0
Blount – 58,887 57,123 1,687.39 35 1.1% 0
Bullock – 10,590 9,278 1,618.47 7 0.2% 0
Butler – 20,202 15,856 2,016.25 10 0.4% 0
Calhoun – 107,888 96,049 1,583.21 68 2.1% 0
Chambers – 28,059 27,018 1,562.5 18 0.5% 0
Cherokee – 27,059 23,269 1,552.86 17 0.5% 0
Chilton – 44,072 43,499 1,818.3 24 0.9% 0
Choctaw – 12,604 10,287 2,391.95 5 0.2% 0
Clarke – 24,930 19,269 3,250.49 8 0.5% 68
Clay – 13,437 13,548 1,570.24 9 0.3% 0
Cleburne – 15,629 14,911 1,453.63 11 0.3% 0
Coffee – 47,809 49,177 1,763.26 27 0.9% 0
Colbert – 54,736 57,497 1,608.07 34 1.1% 0
Conecuh – 12,643 9,164 2,209.24 6 0.2% 0
Coosa – 11,700 9,105 1,725.94 7 0.2% 0
Covington – 35,652 33,444 2,706.7 13 0.7% 0
Crenshaw – 13,556 11,445 1,584.21 9 0.3% 0
Cullman – 77,796 85,029 1,957.27 40 1.5% 0
Dale – 49,884 45,539 1,459.03 34 1% 0
Dallas – 41,761 30,578 2,576.03 16 0.8% 0
DeKalb – 71,065 66,127 2,017.37 35 1.4% 0
Elmore – 102,346 81,086 1,701.23 60 2% 0
Escambia – 36,581 31,765 2,471.16 15 0.7% 0
Etowah – 103,101 96,496 1,423.65 72 2% 0
Fayette – 15,807 13,990 1,631 10 0.3% 0
Franklin – 29,729 28,365 1,680.26 18 0.6% 0
Geneva – 26,018 24,017 1,496.64 17 0.5% 0
Greene – 8,420 6,033 1,716.12 5 0.2% 0
Hale – 14,261 12,453 1,701.87 8 0.3% 0
Henry – 17,531 15,632 1,474.05 12 0.3% 0
Houston – 103,847 102,231 1,507.52 69 2% 0
Jackson – 51,481 48,397 2,915.37 18 1% 0
Jefferson – 729,464 610,922 2,915.01 250 14.2% 0
Lamar – 13,291 11,993 1,571.54 8 0.3% 0
Lauderdale – 90,219 84,052 1,863.1 48 1.8% 0
Lawrence – 34,697 30,845 1,852.49 19 0.7% 0
Lee – 157,517 189,381 1,596.01 99 3.1% 0
Limestone – 98,560 98,683 1,572.65 63 1.9% 0
Lowndes – 10,913 9,316 1,878.81 6 0.2% 0
Macon – 19,934 16,645 1,590.67 13 0.4% 0
Madison – 460,720 404,281 2,108.72 218 8.9% 0
Marengo – 21,702 16,769 2,545.94 9 0.4% 0
Marion – 29,525 25,548 1,927.23 15 0.6% 0
Marshall – 93,273 92,711 1,610.3 58 1.8% 0
Mobile – 423,434 374,870 3,337.95 127 8.2% 40,803
Monroe – 22,333 15,504 2,682.27 8 0.4% 0
Montgomery – 316,980 207,183 2,077.43 153 6.1% 0
Morgan – 117,537 116,978 1,553.37 76 2.3% 0
Perry – 7,629 5,090 1,874.42 4 0.1% 0
Pickens – 20,518 19,022 2,298.44 9 0.4% 0
Pike – 33,698 30,595 1,748.66 19 0.7% 0
Randolph – 23,281 20,293 1,515.53 15 0.5% 0
Russell – 50,541 56,473 1,679.61 30 1% 0
Shelby – 246,287 234,272 2,096.82 117 4.8% 0
St. Clair – 96,851 95,642 1,691.72 57 1.9% 0
Sumter – 13,817 10,881 2,360.41 6 0.3% 0
Talladega – 88,252 81,961 1,969.08 45 1.7% 0
Tallapoosa – 40,297 38,022 1,986.38 20 0.8% 0
Tuscaloosa – 200,584 226,872 3,501.24 57 3.9% 0
Walker – 64,082 58,050 2,082.94 31 1.2% 0
Washington – 17,037 12,587 2,820.33 6 0.3% 132
Wilcox – 10,133 8,420 2,351.13 4 0.2% 0
Winston – 24,448 21,896 1,643.89 15 0.5% 0
04સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
3,172.4 H3 cells
Ports
2 H3 cells
Airports
3 H3 cells
Major roads
6,236 H3 cells
Railways
2,613 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,473.1 H3 cells
05જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Alabama publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
દેશો
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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