You’re at your local Whole Foods shopping for kale chips and asparagus water, trying to work out if you’ll have time to stop at the Pottery Barn before you head to your yoga class taught by a girl named Sage. It hits you: you’re leading the whitest life imaginable.
But does that mean the city you live in is one of the whitest places in Alabama?
Don’t worry, we’ve figured it out for you. Using actual census data combined with our favorite white people stereotypes (as confirmed by the internet), we can determine which cities are the whitest of the white in Heart Of Dixie.
After analyzing cities with populations greater than 5,000, we came up with this list as the whitest cities in Alabama for 2019.
- Orange Beach (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Mountain Brook (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Arab (Homes For Sale)
- Southside (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Gulf Shores (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Glencoe (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Robertsdale (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Chelsea (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Cullman (Photos | Homes For Sale)
- Trussville (Photos | Homes For Sale)
If you’re wondering, Tuskegee is the least white city of all those we measured.
Read on below to see where your hometown ranked and why. Or check out the whitest states in America and the most diverse states in America.
For more Alabama reading, check out:
- These Are The 10 Richest Cities In Alabama
- These Are The 10 Best Places To Retire In Alabama
- 10 Safest Places In Alabama
How we determined the whitest places in Alabama for 2019
In order to rank the whitest places in Alabama, we had to determine what measurable criteria defines whiteness.
Obviously we had to count how many white people living there, specifically the percentage of white people living in each city in Alabama.
Specifically, we looked at table B03002: Hispanic OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE. Here are the category names as defined by the Census:
- Hispanic or Latino
- White alone*
- Black or African American alone*
- American Indian and Alaska Native alone*
- Asian alone*
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone*
- Some other race alone*
- Two or more races*
Our particular column of interest here was the number of people who identified as White alone.
We limited our analysis to non-CDPs with a population greater than 5,000 people. That left us with 102 cities.
We then calculated the percent of residents that are White. The percentages ranked from 96.4% to 1.3%.
Finally, we ranked each city based on the percent of White population with a higher score being more White than a lower score. Orange Beach took the distinction of being the most White, while Tuskegee was the least White city.
Read on for more information on how the cities in Alabama ranked by population of White residents or, for a more general take on diversity in America, head over to our ranking of the most diverse cities in America.
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Population: 5,826
% White: 96.43%
More on Orange Beach: Real Estate | Data | Photos
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Population: 20,438
% White: 96.25%
More on Mountain Brook: Real Estate | Data | Photos
Mountain Brook is a town in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and an upper-middle-class suburb of Birmingham. Its estimated 2015 population is 20,691. It is one of the state’s most affluent places.
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Population: 8,200
% White: 94.87%
More on Arab: Real Estate | Data
Arab is a city in Marshall and Cullman counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, located 10 miles from Guntersville Lake and Guntersville Dam, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 8,050.
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Population: 8,679
% White: 94.73%
More on Southside: Real Estate | Data | Photos
Southside is a city in Etowah and Calhoun counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is included in the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area. It incorporated in 1957. The population was 8,412 at the time of the 2010 United States Census. Located 8 to 12 miles south of downtown Gadsden, Southside is one of the fastest growing cities in northeast Alabama.
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Population: 11,358
% White: 94.29%
More on Gulf Shores: Real Estate | Data | Photos
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Population: 5,116
% White: 92.38%
More on Glencoe: Real Estate | Data | Photos
Glencoe is a city in Calhoun and Etowah counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is part of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city incorporated in 1939.
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Population: 5,853
% White: 89.73%
More on Robertsdale: Real Estate | Data | Photos
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Population: 12,199
% White: 89.5%
More on Chelsea: Real Estate | Data | Photos
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Population: 15,111
% White: 89.09%
More on Cullman: Real Estate | Data | Photos
Cullman is a city and the county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, about 50 miles north of Birmingham and about 55 miles south of Huntsville. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 14,775, with an estimated population of 15,496 in 2016.
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Population: 21,145
% White: 88.69%
More on Trussville: Real Estate | Data | Photos
Trussville is a city in Jefferson and St. Clair counties in the State of Alabama. It is a suburb of Birmingham and part of the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its estimated 2015 population was 21,023.
There You Have It – White Populations Across Alabama
Measuring the locations with the highest percentage of white people, this list provides accurate information on the whitest places in Alabama according to the most recent data.
If you’re curious enough, here are the least White places in Alabama:
- Tuskegee
- Fairfield
- Midfield
For more Alabama reading, check out:
Detailed List Of The Whitest Cities In Alabama
| Rank | City | % White |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orange Beach | 96.43% |
| 2 | Mountain Brook | 96.25% |
| 3 | Arab | 94.87% |
| 4 | Southside | 94.73% |
| 5 | Gulf Shores | 94.29% |
| 6 | Glencoe | 92.38% |
| 7 | Robertsdale | 89.73% |
| 8 | Chelsea | 89.5% |
| 9 | Cullman | 89.09% |
| 10 | Trussville | 88.69% |
| 11 | Vestavia Hills | 88.37% |
| 12 | Hamilton | 87.79% |
| 13 | Fairhope | 87.64% |
| 14 | Satsuma | 87.57% |
| 15 | Hartselle | 86.72% |
| 16 | Smiths Station | 86.42% |
| 17 | Scottsboro | 85.7% |
| 18 | Boaz | 84.16% |
| 19 | Gardendale | 83.57% |
| 20 | Moody | 83.36% |
| 21 | Spanish Fort | 83.02% |
| 22 | Pell City | 82.67% |
| 23 | Muscle Shoals | 82.66% |
| 24 | Guntersville | 81.88% |
| 25 | Saraland | 81.56% |
| 26 | Rainbow City | 79.71% |
| 27 | Pinson | 78.94% |
| 28 | Opp | 78.91% |
| 29 | Jasper | 78.76% |
| 30 | Foley | 78.52% |
| 31 | Daphne | 78.37% |
| 32 | Homewood | 78.06% |
| 33 | Helena | 77.58% |
| 34 | Clay | 75.39% |
| 35 | Florence | 75.3% |
| 36 | Leeds | 74.35% |
| 37 | Oxford | 73.96% |
| 38 | Pelham | 73.63% |
| 39 | Prattville | 73.25% |
| 40 | Fort Payne | 72.95% |
| 41 | Lincoln | 71.78% |
| 42 | Alabaster | 71.66% |
| 43 | Fultondale | 71.58% |
| 44 | Jacksonville | 71.3% |
| 45 | Sheffield | 71.01% |
| 46 | Athens | 70.79% |
| 47 | Attalla | 70.48% |
| 48 | Oneonta | 70.48% |
| 49 | Madison | 70.11% |
| 50 | Andalusia | 69.62% |
| 51 | Hoover | 69.55% |
| 52 | Tuscumbia | 69.53% |
| 53 | Clanton | 69.05% |
| 54 | Northport | 69.03% |
| 55 | Auburn | 68.98% |
| 56 | Millbrook | 67.87% |
| 57 | Montevallo | 67.39% |
| 58 | Albertville | 66.51% |
| 59 | Calera | 65.65% |
| 60 | Enterprise | 65.02% |
| 61 | Pike Road | 64.79% |
| 62 | Hueytown | 63.22% |
| 63 | Decatur | 62.04% |
| 64 | Daleville | 60.92% |
| 65 | Dothan | 60.28% |
| 66 | Wetumpka | 59.78% |
| 67 | Ozark | 58.99% |
| 68 | Sylacauga | 58.57% |
| 69 | Huntsville | 58.55% |
| 70 | Alexander City | 57.37% |
| 71 | Gadsden | 56.27% |
| 72 | Bay Minette | 53.9% |
| 73 | Valley | 53.2% |
| 74 | Brewton | 52.34% |
| 75 | Troy | 51.81% |
| 76 | Roanoke | 51.09% |
| 77 | Opelika | 50.0% |
| 78 | Tuscaloosa | 49.54% |
| 79 | Irondale | 49.23% |
| 80 | Russellville | 48.33% |
| 81 | Chickasaw | 48.0% |
| 82 | Phenix City | 46.26% |
| 83 | Talladega | 45.83% |
| 84 | Anniston | 44.12% |
| 85 | Pleasant Grove | 43.77% |
| 86 | Eufaula | 43.71% |
| 87 | Mobile | 43.47% |
| 88 | Demopolis | 43.01% |
| 89 | Atmore | 42.0% |
| 90 | Greenville | 40.16% |
| 91 | Monroeville | 37.85% |
| 92 | Lanett | 35.23% |
| 93 | Tarrant | 32.96% |
| 94 | Montgomery | 32.24% |
| 95 | Center Point | 24.85% |
| 96 | Bessemer | 23.03% |
| 97 | Birmingham | 22.84% |
| 98 | Selma | 17.0% |
| 99 | Prichard | 10.74% |
| 100 | Midfield | 10.3% |
