Healthiest County in Every State. (24/7 Wall Street, 5/9/2017)
Located within the Birmingham metro area, Shelby is Alabama's fastest growing county, its population having increased 534% since 1970, compared to a nearly 70% decline in Wilcox County, Alabama's least healthy, since its 1900 population peak.
Shelby is also among the 100 highest-income counties in the U.S. Its nonwhite population is 21.8% compared to 72.1% for Wilcox County.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
Other numbers
% of population living in poverty
- Shelby County | 8.5%
- Wilcox County | 33.2%
- Alabama | 18.5%
- U.S. 13.5%
% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree
- Shelby County | 40.8%
- Wilcox County | 12.5%
- Alabama | 32.5%
- U.S. | 29.8%
- Shelby County | $70,187
- Wilcox County | $23,750
- Alabama| $43,623
- U.S. | $53,889
Source: Wikipedia
Original 3/30/2017 post, "The least healthy county in each Southern state: Wilcox County, Alabama", starts here.
The least healthy counties in every state. (24/7 Wall Street, 3/15/2017)
Wilcox County, Alabama. Fewer people live there now than in 1840.
Source: Wikipedia
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
Other numbers
% of population living in poverty
- Wilcox County | 33.2%
- Alabama | 18.5%
- U.S. 13.5%
% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree
- Wilcox County | 12.5%
- Alabama | 32.5%
- U.S. | 29.8%
- Wilcox County | $23,750
- Alabama| $43,623
- U.S. | $53,889
Wilcox County is located in Alabama's Black Belt.
Source: CNN
Related reading:
Wilcox County, Alabama: Largest slaveholders from 1860 slave census schedules and surname matches for African America on 1870 census. (Ancestry.com)
Wilcox County Library on Facebook.
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