StapletonAL
A town of 3,009.
Is Stapleton a good place to live?
Stapleton gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $314K, 4 years of the Daphne metro’s $79K median household income. It grades B+ overall, 42nd of 187 graded towns in Alabama. The low prices come with trade-offs. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 92% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top, and CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 76% of the country. On the plus side, the median household earns n/a. Stapleton’s average trip to work is 36 minutes, where Alabama’s towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Only 15 of Alabama’s 308 towns score lower on history.
What makes Stapleton stand out
Where Stapleton beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
99% of working residents leave Stapleton for work
Where Stapleton’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Stapleton grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Alabama), ordered by how far Stapleton is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for cost of living (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D− for hazard risk (better than 4%), so the B+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
USS Alabama and 22 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Stapleton. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi MuseumUSS Alabama
14 mi MuseumUSS Drum
13 mi MuseumBattleship Memorial Park
38 mi MuseumFort Morgan
40 mi MuseumNational Naval Aviation Museum
15 mi Stadium & arenaMobile Civic CenterPhoto credits
USS Alabama: USN, Public domain · USS Drum: Jean-Pierre Martin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Battleship Memorial Park: Rennett Stowe from USA, CC BY 2.0 · Fort Morgan: Altairisfar, Public domain · National Naval Aviation Museum: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mobile Civic Center: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Stapleton: who provides what
Stapleton is unincorporated, so Baldwin 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 Stapleton.
Stapleton looks healthier within Alabama than nationally, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Alabama (mostly hurricanes) and has commutes longer than most of Alabama.
Stapleton faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 92% of Alabama towns; that rating is what its D− for hazard risk is built on.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Stapleton’s public schools outperform 65% of Alabama districts
Its public schools are run by the Baldwin County school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stapleton SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 203 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within AL on state tests and graduation
More children than Alabama overall
Children under 18 are 37% of residents (22% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 11% of residents (22% statewide). 33% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Stapleton.
| Stapleton | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 33% | 23% | 29% |
| Median age | 37.3 years | 39.2 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 35% and 56% women
The Census survey reached too few of Stapleton’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±10.8 points. Across Alabama, 51.4% of residents are women.
| Stapleton | AL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 27.5% | 11.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.7% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 1.2% | 9.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.9% | 12.9% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.5% | 12.4% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.5% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.8% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.5% | 10.7% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.4% | 7.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 11.9% | 11.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 41% | 30.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 7.5% | 20.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.4% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.1% | 17.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 16.1% | 11.1% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,000, single groups can be off by several points
Stapleton earns a C− for health
Within Alabama it is less healthy than 53% of the 187 graded towns: much of Alabama scores lower on these measures.
45% of Stapleton adults have high blood pressure. Stapleton beats the Alabama average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4. 18% of Stapleton adults smoke cigarettes.
| Stapleton | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 43% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Stapleton | AL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 8% | 9.6% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.7% | 8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Stapleton’s workers commute out
The average commute for its 954 working residents takes 36.4 minutes, against 25.5 across Alabama.
Most working residents leave Stapleton for work: only 1% work in town. Since 2013, Stapleton has added 148 jobs, to 319 in 2023. The top destinations are Mobile (22%), Bay Minette (10%) and Daphne (7%).
| Stapleton | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.4% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.2% | 10% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Stapleton stands out in Alabama and nationally: a larger share of its households own their home
The median property tax bill is $1,923, against $788 across Alabama, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
No town among the 187 in Alabama we compare has a higher share of households owning their home than Stapleton. The typical Stapleton home is worth about $314,000, up 1.9% in a year, 32% above the Alabama typical home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
In Stapleton, expect mild winters and hot summers
Stapleton has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Stapleton is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Stapleton
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Stapleton
About 2 of every 100 Stapleton residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Alabama.
About Stapleton
Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States
Stapleton is an unincorporated community in northern Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, Stapleton had a population of 2,213. It is part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area. Stapleton lies along U.S. Route 31 and State Route 59. There is a bluegrass music festival held at Stapleton Elementary School every fall. There are about 250 students at the school that runs from Pre-K to the 6th grade.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 11 sq mi
- Elevation
- 223 ft
- ZIP code
- 36578
Stapleton’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Stapleton.
| Town | AL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stapleton | #42 | B+ | A+ | — | B+ | C− |
| Loxley | #102 | C− | C+ | C− | B+ | B− |
| Spanish Fort | #41 | B+ | B− | B | B+ | A |
| Bay Minette | #121 | C− | A | C− | B+ | D |
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Questions about Stapleton
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Stapleton, AL a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Stapleton grades B+ overall, better than 66% of U.S. towns and #42 of 187 in Alabama. It grades C− for health and B+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Stapleton, AL expensive?
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 A+.