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Hobson City town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Hobson City town is a Census town of 1,142 people across 1.05 square miles of land, in Calhoun County. Median household income is $47,361, 65.1 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Hobson City
What Hobson City is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.05 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,092 plus or minus 368
- County holding the largest share of its areaCalhoun County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hobson City
How many people live in Hobson City
- Population1,142 plus or minus 385
- Median age37.6 plus or minus 7.6
- Population under 18374 plus or minus 142
- Share under 1832.7 percent
- Population 65 and over126 plus or minus 49
- Share 65 and over11.0 percent
- Households355 plus or minus 106
- Family households234 plus or minus 88
- Share of households that are families65.9 percent plus or minus 15.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hobson City
Income and work in Hobson City
- Median household income$47,361 plus or minus $23,268
- Per capita income$21,668 plus or minus $6,101
- Civilian labor force502 plus or minus 171
- Employed461 plus or minus 167
- Unemployed41 plus or minus 30
- Unemployment rate8.2 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over654 plus or minus 221
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.0 percent plus or minus 37.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.5 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hobson City
Housing in Hobson City
- Housing units459 plus or minus 121
- Occupied units355 plus or minus 106
- Vacant units104 plus or minus 57
- Vacancy rate22.7 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Owner occupied231 plus or minus 98
- Renter occupied124 plus or minus 48
- Ownership rate65.1 percent plus or minus 19.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$108,200 plus or minus $53,683
- Median gross rent, monthly$475 plus or minus $183
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.0 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Single family units342 plus or minus 113
- Share single family74.5 percent plus or minus 15.0
- Units in buildings of two or more84 plus or minus 42
- Share in buildings of two or more18.3 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Mobile homes33 plus or minus 26
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hobson City
How Hobson City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute418 plus or minus 147
- Commuting under 15 minutes81 plus or minus 47
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.4 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more124 plus or minus 87
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.7 percent plus or minus 18.1
- Drove alone61.2 percent plus or minus 14.1
- Carpooled15.0 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Public transport6.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Walked4.8 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Worked from home9.3 percent plus or minus 11.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calhoun County, not Hobson City
Calhoun County context, not Hobson City figures
These are Calhoun County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hobson City measurements.
- Establishments in Calhoun County2,232
- Employment at those establishments, Calhoun County34,577
- Covered employment, Calhoun County43,778
- Average annual pay, Calhoun County$51,354
- Average weekly wage, Calhoun County$988
- Housing units permitted, Calhoun County138
- Of those, single family, Calhoun County126
- County product, 2024, Calhoun County$6,287,502,000
- County product change over the prior year, Calhoun County4.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Calhoun County$48,900
Every figure in this section is published for Calhoun County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hobson City. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Hobson City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hobson City, Alabama?
1,142, in 355 households. Hobson City town covers 1.05 square miles of land, which is 1,092 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hobson City in?
Calhoun County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Hobson City?
$47,361. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $108,200. Median gross rent is $475 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Hobson City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Calhoun County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Hobson City.
Is zoning published for Hobson City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.