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Southside city, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Southside city is a Census city of 9,483 people across 19.11 square miles of land, lying across Etowah County and Calhoun County. Median household income is $76,487, 92.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Southside
What Southside is
- Census place typecity
- Land area19.11 sq mi
- Water area0.17 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land496
- County holding the largest share of its areaEtowah County, 96.9 percent
- Counties this place lies inEtowah County 96.9 percent, Calhoun County 3.1 percent
Southside city crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Southside
How many people live in Southside
- Population9,483
- Median age41.8
- Population under 182,244
- Share under 1823.7 percent
- Population 65 and over1,962
- Share 65 and over20.7 percent
- Households3,297
- Family households2,716
- Share of households that are families82.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Southside
Income and work in Southside
- Median household income$76,487
- Per capita income$33,693
- Civilian labor force4,601
- Employed4,467
- Unemployed134 plus or minus 87
- Unemployment rate2.9 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Adults 25 and over6,697
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.2 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Southside
Housing in Southside
- Housing units3,516
- Occupied units3,297
- Vacant units219 plus or minus 126
- Vacancy rate6.2 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Owner occupied3,052
- Renter occupied245 plus or minus 101
- Ownership rate92.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$226,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,184
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.6 percent
- Single family units3,435
- Share single family97.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes81 plus or minus 53
- Median year structure built1986
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Southside
How Southside gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,346
- Commuting under 15 minutes954 plus or minus 264
- Share commuting under 15 minutes22.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,505 plus or minus 332
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.6 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Drove alone92.0 percent
- Carpooled4.9 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.2 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Etowah County, not Southside
Etowah County context, not Southside figures
These are Etowah County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Southside measurements.
- Establishments in Etowah County1,954
- Employment at those establishments, Etowah County28,155
- Covered employment, Etowah County33,010
- Average annual pay, Etowah County$46,564
- Average weekly wage, Etowah County$895
- Housing units permitted, Etowah County133
- Of those, single family, Etowah County117
- County product, 2024, Etowah County$4,025,620,000
- County product change over the prior year, Etowah County5.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Etowah County$55,897
Every figure in this section is published for Etowah County as a whole and is not a measurement of Southside. 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
Southside questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Southside, Alabama?
9,483, in 3,297 households. Southside city covers 19.11 square miles of land, which is 496 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Southside in?
Southside lies in more than one. By area it is 96.9 percent in Etowah County, 3.1 percent in Calhoun County. This page sits under Etowah County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Southside?
$76,487. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $226,500. Median gross rent is $1,184 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 Southside figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Etowah 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 Southside.
Is zoning published for Southside?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.