Blue RidgeAL
A town of 1,190.
Is Blue Ridge a good place to live?
The best of Blue Ridge’s subject grades are an A for incomes and an A− for cost of living; the weakest is a C for hazard risk. 38% of residents are 65 or older in Blue Ridge, against 18% in Alabama’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns. Only 24 of Alabama’s 308 towns score higher on health. Abel Hagerty House is on the National Register of Historic Places. Blue Ridge has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Blue Ridge stand out
Where Blue Ridge beats most towns.
1,190 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Blue Ridge grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Alabama), ordered by how far Blue Ridge is from typical.
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Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and 15 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Blue Ridge. Close and well known come first.
Big draw28 mi National Historic SiteTuskegee Institute National Historic Site9K visitors a year
12 mi MuseumThe National Memorial to Peace and Justice
25 mi LakeLake Martin
11 mi LandmarkCivil Rights Memorial
11 mi MuseumThe Legacy Museum12 mi LandmarkMothers of Gynecology MonumentPhoto credits
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site: 2C2K Photography, CC BY 2.0 · The National Memorial to Peace and Justice: Soniakapadia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lake Martin: Rebecca Hagen, Public domain · Civil Rights Memorial: Colin Mutchler from Brooklyn, United States, CC BY 2.0 · The Legacy Museum: Soniakapadia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Blue Ridge: who provides what
Blue Ridge is unincorporated, so Elmore County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Blue Ridge.
Blue Ridge stands out in Alabama and nationally: a smaller share of its adults report frequent mental distress
Blue Ridge: one in ten adults smoke cigarettes, where Alabama’s towns sit at 16% and U.S. towns at 14%. For adults in the town, the share who feel lonely is 30%. Only 5 of the 188 Alabama towns we compare have a lower share of adults who worry about having enough food than Blue Ridge.
| Blue Ridge | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 36% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 16% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 84% | 80% | 79% |
| What stands out | Blue Ridge | AL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4.1% | 9.6% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6.2% | 13.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 12.9% | 8.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
About half of Blue Ridge’s working residents commute to Montgomery
Half commute less than 10 miles. Blue Ridge had 65 jobs in 2023, down 29 from 2013. For Blue Ridge, the middle household income is $128,000. The top destinations are Montgomery (45%), Wetumpka (14%) and Prattville (4%).
| Blue Ridge | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $128,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 6.2% | 16% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Blue Ridge has mild winters and hot summers
Among 188 Alabama towns, just 6 have a higher typical July afternoon high than Blue Ridge. July afternoons reach 92°, January nights drop to 36° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Top of a high hazard risk in Blue Ridge: inland flooding
Blue Ridge’s risk rating from FEMA stands at 63 of 100. 69% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 11%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A larger share of households live in a home they own in Blue Ridge than in most of Alabama or the rest of the country
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Blue Ridge
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Blue Ridge
About 8 of every 100 Blue Ridge residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Alabama.
Blue Ridge has grown 11% from 2010 to 2020
1,341 counted in 2010 and 1,485 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
About Blue Ridge
Place in Alabama, United States
Blue Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Elmore County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,485. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 7.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 367 ft
- Area code
- 334
Questions about Blue Ridge
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Blue Ridge, AL expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $315,000, 32% above the Alabama typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.