Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,178, settled in 1890.
Adamsville gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $138K, 1.9 years of the Birmingham metro’s $71K median household income. It grades C− overall, 122nd of 187 graded towns in Alabama. The low prices come with trade-offs. Its police reported 18 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025, a higher rate per resident than 94% of U.S. towns. Adamsville’s property crime rate is 50.8 per 1,000 residents, above both Alabama’s towns (16.9) and U.S. towns (9.9). On hazard risk, just 21 of Alabama’s 308 towns do better.
Where Adamsville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Alabama), ordered by how far Adamsville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 649 in 1910, 4,366 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1946 and 4 maps from 1904 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Adamsville. Close and well known come first.
10 mi Stadium & arenaLegion Field
11 mi Stadium & arenaProtective Stadium
12 mi MuseumSloss Furnaces
11 mi Stadium & arenaLegacy Arena25 mi LakeLewis Smith Lake
11 mi Stadium & arenaBirmingham–Jefferson Convention ComplexLegion Field: USGS, Public domain · Protective Stadium: Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sloss Furnaces: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Legacy Arena: AuburnShuffle, CC0 · Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex: Chris Pruitt, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Adamsville, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Adamsville.
Adamsville has homes that are cheap against local pay and looks healthier within Alabama than nationally, but it reports property crime at 3 times the Alabama rate.
Property crime runs at 50.8 per 1,000 residents, 3 times the Alabama rate, most of it theft.
The violent crime rate in Adamsville is 4.4 per 1,000 residents. Adamsville reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 94% report less.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its public schools are run by the Jefferson County school district. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Minor High School, with 978 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minor Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 668 | D |
| Minor High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 978 | D− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within AL on state tests and graduation
At 1.9 years of the Birmingham metro’s $71K median household income, the typical home (about $138K) costs less against local pay than in 94% of Alabama towns; that ratio is one input to its B+ for cost of living.
Adamsville’s median rent is $1,347 a month. The typical Adamsville home is worth about $138,000, up 3.1% in a year, 42% below the Alabama typical home.
| Adamsville | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,347 a month | $940 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 77% | 69% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Jobs based here fell from 1,370 in 2013 to 1,047. The average commute for its 1,741 working residents takes 34.5 minutes, against 25.5 across Alabama.
Most working residents leave Adamsville for work: only 2% work in town. Since 2013, Adamsville has lost 323 jobs, to 1,047 in 2023. Among 186 Alabama towns, just 4 have a higher average trip to work than Adamsville.
| Adamsville | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.5% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $63,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Within Alabama it is healthier than 51% of the 187 graded towns: much of Alabama scores lower on these measures.
Adamsville beats the Alabama average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 40% of adults feel lonely in Adamsville.
| Adamsville | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 36% | 33% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 43% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 12% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 19% | 14% |
| What stands out | Adamsville | AL |
|---|---|---|
| More adults getting cholesterol checked | 87.7% | 85.8% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 21.3% | 15.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Only 5 of the 187 Alabama towns we compare have a lower FEMA risk score than Adamsville. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Adamsville since 2011.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Adamsville has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 91°, January nights drop to 33° and about 1 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1.7 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
| Adamsville | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
6 within 15 miles of the center of Adamsville
About 6 of every 100 Adamsville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Alabama.
3 notable people were born in Adamsville.
City in Alabama, United States
Adamsville is a city in western Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is north from the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. It initially incorporated in 1901 (although the 1910 U.S. Census stated 1900), but disincorporated in 1915. It later reincorporated in 1953. As of the 2020 census, Adamsville had a population of 4,366.
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6 towns share a border with Adamsville.
| Town | AL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamsville | #122 | C− | B+ | D | C | C |
| Forestdale | #125 | C− | B | — | C | C− |
| Graysville | — | — | A | — | C | C− |
| Brookside | — | — | A+ | C− | C | B− |
| Birmingham | #164 | D− | B | D− | D | D |
| West Jefferson | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maytown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Graysville and Brookside have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Forestdale and Graysville report no FBI crime data of their own. West Jefferson and Maytown aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Adamsville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Adamsville grades C− overall, better than 17% of U.S. towns and #122 of 187 in Alabama. It grades C for health, D for safety and C for schools. Safety is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.
3 notable people were born here, including Henry E. Erwin and Christion Jones.
