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The waiting list is the policy / Alabama

Alabama

Full

Every county in Alabama

66 counties

Ranked by units under contract. 65 of 66 publish a wait figure; the rest are suppressed (fewer than 11 families), missing, or non-reporting, and are shown as "no data" rather than as a zero.

County Units Households Wait (mo, those admitted) ELI need met
Jefferson County 19,203 16,940 25 51.1%
Mobile County 12,501 10,281 15 53%
Montgomery County 5,154 5,009 41 38.1%
Tuscaloosa County 4,905 3,983 25 33.7%
Madison County 4,442 4,009 24 27.4%
Houston County 2,217 1,979 22 48.7%
Calhoun County 2,164 1,999 11 38.9%
Etowah County 2,117 1,903 6 49.1%
Marshall County 2,099 1,933 7 52.6%
Dallas County 2,089 1,599 19 66.7%
Lee County 1,999 1,674 25 14.6%
Morgan County 1,936 1,377 21 34.4%
Lauderdale County 1,931 1,613 7 43.9%
Russell County 1,854 1,464 10 43.7%
Talladega County 1,769 1,679 4 51.1%
Walker County 1,539 1,126 6 54.1%
Colbert County 1,297 1,107 9 50.6%
Pike County 1,040 803 18 44.3%
Dale County 1,016 819 18 33.3%
Tallapoosa County 1,001 968 11 47.3%
DeKalb County 989 949 6 40.1%
Limestone County 968 776 37 30.2%
Marion County 953 932 4 87%
Barbour County 889 804 6 43.4%
Baldwin County 864 788 10 15.1%
Coffee County 812 721 18 32.3%
Macon County 777 634 6 58.2%
Cullman County 773 696 8 26.6%
Franklin County 759 707 3 78.4%
Jackson County 706 655 8 29.6%
Chambers County 632 585 19 69.3%
Covington County 631 603 10 34.4%
Shelby County 575 545 12 13.1%
Sumter County 518 441 11 43.8%
Butler County 507 403 8 55.3%
Lamar County 474 441 6 57.2%
Bullock County 469 291 5 37.3%
Winston County 463 446 3 49.6%
Blount County 458 444 8 21.7%
Marengo County 399 366 9 44.7%
Clay County 396 337 6 51.7%
Pickens County 389 358 5 47.7%
Escambia County 383 343 16 13.2%
Crenshaw County 375 322 5 67.5%
Fayette County 363 347 8 56.6%
Lowndes County 352 219 5 49.2%
Geneva County 345 331 11 26.4%
St. Clair County 324 310 32 16.9%
Perry County 320 288 5 87.7%
Monroe County 319 292 7 29.6%
Greene County 302 278 50 44.3%
Cherokee County 270 263 11 33.4%
Conecuh County 262 246 2 91.4%
Autauga County 261 255 29 20.9%
Elmore County 253 211 13 14%
Lawrence County 247 232 55 29.6%
Henry County 246 228 17 43.6%
Randolph County 218 200 9 17.2%
Chilton County 190 186 15 16.4%
Hale County 180 156 6 25.4%
Wilcox County 161 151 no data 40.6%
Bibb County 119 112 2 10.8%
Cleburne County 106 100 11 20%
Clarke County 103 83 12 11.2%
Coosa County 49 48 11 31.3%
Washington County 31 31 11 19.1%

The wait is the time households who were admitted spent waiting. Everyone still on a list is absent from HUD's file entirely, so the real wait is longer than any figure here. Need is from HUD CHAS (2017-2021 ACS); supply is from the HUD Picture file (2025). See the methodology.


Generated 2026-07-13 02:52 UTC

Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households (2025 snapshot, 2009-2025 trend) joined to HUD CHAS 2017-2021 ACS for the eligible-household denominator