Muscle Shoals vs Tuscumbia

A side-by-side comparison of Muscle Shoals and Tuscumbia: population, income, housing, and more.

Muscle Shoals and Tuscumbia are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Muscle Shoals has the higher population (16,670 vs 9,084 in Tuscumbia). Muscle Shoals has the higher median household income ($70,927 vs $47,342 in Tuscumbia). Muscle Shoals has the higher median home value ($198,300 vs $166,400 in Tuscumbia).

Population, income & housing

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
Population	16,670	9,084
Median age	37.2 yrs	38.7 yrs
Median household income	$70,927	$47,342
Median home value	$198,300	$166,400
Median gross rent	$939	$760
Housing units	7,118	4,305
Homeownership rate	68.8%	59.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.4%	22.1%
Unemployment rate	2.4%	1.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
Population	14,103 → 16,670 (+18.2%)	8,444 → 9,084 (+7.6%)
Median household income	$60,629 → $70,927 (+17.0%)	$44,088 → $47,342 (+7.4%)
Median home value	$147,100 → $198,300 (+34.8%)	$110,100 → $166,400 (+51.1%)
Median gross rent	$831 → $939 (+13.0%)	$694 → $760 (+9.5%)

Muscle Shoals

Population

14,10316,670

Median household income

$60,629$70,927

Median home value

$147,100$198,300

Median gross rent

$831$939

Tuscumbia

Population

8,4449,084

Median household income

$44,088$47,342

Median home value

$110,100$166,400

Median gross rent

$694$760

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
Under 5	6.2%	5.5%
5 to 17	17.6%	18.5%
18 to 24	6.8%	8.7%
25 to 34	14.2%	11.2%
35 to 44	13.4%	12.5%
45 to 54	13.6%	9.3%
55 to 64	10.8%	11.5%
65 to 74	9.3%	11.8%
75 and over	8.2%	10.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
White (non-Hispanic)	77.1%	70.5%
Black or African American	13.3%	22.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.2%
Asian	1.2%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.1%	4.4%
Hispanic or Latino	4.9%	2.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
No high school diploma	9.2%	14.8%
High school graduate	30.4%	34.2%
Some college or associate's	36.0%	28.9%
Bachelor's degree	16.5%	16.0%
Graduate or professional degree	7.8%	6.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
Drove alone	79.4%	87.3%
Carpooled	6.6%	5.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.1%
Walked	0.2%	4.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.7%	1.6%
Other means	0.1%	0.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
1-unit, detached	76.2%	69.5%
1-unit, attached	0.3%	0.4%
2 to 4 units	11.4%	16.0%
5 to 19 units	5.1%	11.3%
20 or more units	3.1%	2.1%
Mobile home & other	3.9%	0.7%

Poverty & households

	Muscle Shoals	Tuscumbia
Poverty rate	10.4%	19.0%
Average household size	2.47	2.22
Mean commute (minutes)	21	21
Median year structure built	1990	1976