Centre vs Spring Garden

A side-by-side comparison of Centre and Spring Garden: population, income, housing, and more.

Centre and Spring Garden are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Centre has the higher population (3,664 vs 171 in Spring Garden). Spring Garden has the higher median household income ($58,264 vs $43,912 in Centre). Centre has the higher median home value ($166,300 vs $9,999 in Spring Garden).

Population, income & housing

	Centre	Spring Garden
Population	3,664	171
Median age	55.2 yrs	55.5 yrs
Median household income	$43,912	$58,264
Median home value	$166,300	$9,999
Median gross rent	$666	—
Housing units	1,992	65
Homeownership rate	63.9%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.8%	0.0%
Unemployment rate	4.4%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Centre	Spring Garden
Population	3,525 → 3,664 (+3.9%)	187 → 171 (-8.6%)
Median household income	$36,263 → $43,912 (+21.1%)	$64,474 → $58,264 (-9.6%)
Median home value	$140,100 → $166,300 (+18.7%)	$158,600 → $9,999 (-93.7%)
Median gross rent	$606 → $666 (+9.9%)	—

Centre

Population

3,5253,664

Median household income

$36,263$43,912

Median home value

$140,100$166,300

Median gross rent

$606$666

Spring Garden

Population

187171

Median household income

$64,474$58,264

Median home value

$158,600$9,999

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Centre	Spring Garden
Under 5	3.7%	11.1%
5 to 17	9.9%	9.4%
18 to 24	5.9%	0.0%
25 to 34	10.2%	21.6%
35 to 44	5.1%	0.0%
45 to 54	15.1%	0.0%
55 to 64	15.6%	57.9%
65 to 74	13.3%	0.0%
75 and over	21.2%	0.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Centre	Spring Garden
White (non-Hispanic)	86.4%	100.0%
Black or African American	10.2%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.8%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.7%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Centre	Spring Garden
No high school diploma	22.8%	67.6%
High school graduate	28.3%	32.4%
Some college or associate's	34.1%	0.0%
Bachelor's degree	9.4%	0.0%
Graduate or professional degree	5.5%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Centre	Spring Garden
Drove alone	79.1%	69.1%
Carpooled	8.8%	30.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	11.2%	0.0%
Other means	0.9%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Centre	Spring Garden
1-unit, detached	76.5%	0.0%
1-unit, attached	2.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	9.4%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	4.5%	0.0%
20 or more units	2.9%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	4.8%	100.0%

Poverty & households

	Centre	Spring Garden
Poverty rate	11.5%	0.0%
Average household size	1.94	2.63
Mean commute (minutes)	19	—
Median year structure built	1973	—