ChoccoloccoAL
Home to 2,620 people, the town was founded in 1832.
Is Choccolocco a good place to live?
Choccolocco’s best grade is for cost of living: a typical home costs about $263K, 4.8 years of the Anniston metro’s $55K median household income. The drawback is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Put together, the subjects come to a B overall, ranking 54th of 187 in Alabama. Nationally, it does better than 55% of U.S. towns. Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge, at 32 acres with 1.1 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. Only 9 of the 187 Alabama towns we compare have a higher share of residents 65 or older than Choccolocco. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for schools, B− for health and B for incomes.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · schools, state test and graduation results · health, CDC PLACES · OpenStreetMap.
99% of working residents leave Choccolocco for work
Where Choccolocco’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Choccolocco grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Alabama), ordered by how far Choccolocco is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Choccolocco: who provides what
Choccolocco is unincorporated, so Calhoun 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 Choccolocco.
Choccolocco looks healthier within Alabama than nationally, sends most of its workers to Anniston and beyond and has hotter summers than most of the country, though not than most of Alabama.
Protected land: 0.4% of Choccolocco
Trails total 2.8 miles in 2 parks and preserves. Choccolocco’s density of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Choccolocco | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.4% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge | 1.1 mi | 32 |
| 2. Choccolocco State Forest | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
About one in three of Choccolocco’s working residents commute to Anniston
Choccolocco has 99 jobs for its 1,067 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Half commute less than 9 miles. Jobs in Choccolocco grew by 59 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 99. Also worth knowing: only 1% of working residents stay in Choccolocco for work; the rest commute out. In Choccolocco, the mean commuting time is 20 minutes, below both the Alabama town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Choccolocco | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 8.6% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $79,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest natural risk in Choccolocco is inland flooding, at a high overall level
In Choccolocco, the FEMA risk score is 68 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 53% come from inland flooding and 32% from tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Choccolocco: mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 89.7°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 80% of Alabama places with climate records; January nights average 31.9°.
Snow is a rarity. In Choccolocco, the January low is 32°F.
| Choccolocco | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 90°F | 91°F | 85°F |
| January low | 32°F | 33°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Choccolocco is healthier than 52% of U.S. towns
Within Alabama it is healthier than 74% of the 187 graded towns: much of Alabama scores lower on these measures.
Among adults in Choccolocco, 41% have high blood pressure, below Alabama’s towns (43%) but above U.S. towns (35%). The share of adults in Choccolocco who binge drink: 16%. Two in five adults in Choccolocco sleep under 7 hours; 13% have diabetes.
| Choccolocco | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 43% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 40% | 36% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 12% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 16% |
| What stands out | Choccolocco | AL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.6% | 9.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13.5% | 19.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Choccolocco sell for about $345K
86% of Choccolocco households live in a home they own. Its going rate for rent comes in at $858 a month.
| Choccolocco | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 86% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $858 a month | $943 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Cheaha Mountain and 6 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Choccolocco. Close and well known come first.
14 mi MountainCheaha Mountain
22 mi MuseumInternational Motorsports Hall of Fame
32 mi WaterfallNoccalula Falls Park
12 mi National MonumentFreedom Riders National Monument
20 mi City parkJanney Furnace Park
29 mi TheatreMort Glosser AmphitheaterPhoto credits
Cheaha Mountain: Amann09 (talk · contribs), Public domain · International Motorsports Hall of Fame: BWard 1997, CC BY 4.0 · Noccalula Falls Park: Thejammer (talk), Public domain · Freedom Riders National Monument: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Janney Furnace Park: dofftoubab, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mort Glosser Amphitheater: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain
Everything we know about Choccolocco
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Choccolocco
About 5 of every 100 Choccolocco residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Alabama.
About Choccolocco
Census-designated place & Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States
Choccolocco is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, Choccolocco had a population of 2,838. It was founded in 1832. The name Choccolocco is an anglicization of the Creek words "chahko lago" ("big shoals") or "choko rakko" ("big house"); sources vary. The community gained brief notoriety in 2001 when The Daily Show aired a piece on the "Choccolocco Monster", a part of local folklore concerning sightings of a mysterious creature in the area in the late 1960s. An October 2001 article in the Anniston Star newspaper revealed that the creature was, in fact, local resident Neal Williamson. As a teenager, Williamson…
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- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Elevation
- 679 ft
- ZIP code
- 36254
Questions about Choccolocco
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Choccolocco, AL a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Choccolocco grades B overall, better than 55% of U.S. towns and #54 of 187 in Alabama. It grades B− for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Choccolocco, AL expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $263,000, 10% 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 B+.