Carbon Hill vs Parrish

A side-by-side comparison of Carbon Hill and Parrish: population, income, housing, and more.

Carbon Hill and Parrish are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Carbon Hill has the higher population (1,440 vs 1,093 in Parrish). Parrish has the higher median household income ($25,769 vs $22,283 in Carbon Hill). Carbon Hill has the higher median home value ($78,200 vs $49,900 in Parrish).

Population, income & housing

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
Population	1,440	1,093
Median age	42.5 yrs	35.8 yrs
Median household income	$22,283	$25,769
Median home value	$78,200	$49,900
Median gross rent	$415	$1,033
Housing units	902	510
Homeownership rate	65.0%	58.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	6.8%	10.5%
Unemployment rate	2.7%	9.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
Population	1,441 → 1,440 (-0.1%)	1,087 → 1,093 (+0.6%)
Median household income	$28,864 → $22,283 (-22.8%)	$35,625 → $25,769 (-27.7%)
Median home value	$64,300 → $78,200 (+21.6%)	$35,800 → $49,900 (+39.4%)
Median gross rent	$579 → $415 (-28.3%)	$592 → $1,033 (+74.5%)

Carbon Hill

Population

1,4411,440

Median household income

$28,864$22,283

Median home value

$64,300$78,200

Median gross rent

$579$415

Parrish

Population

1,0871,093

Median household income

$35,625$25,769

Median home value

$35,800$49,900

Median gross rent

$592$1,033

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
Under 5	4.7%	5.5%
5 to 17	13.6%	20.5%
18 to 24	16.2%	5.3%
25 to 34	7.6%	15.8%
35 to 44	9.2%	12.1%
45 to 54	12.2%	15.1%
55 to 64	16.1%	14.9%
65 to 74	9.2%	7.1%
75 and over	11.2%	3.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
White (non-Hispanic)	79.2%	67.7%
Black or African American	14.3%	24.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.8%	6.5%
Hispanic or Latino	3.3%	1.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
No high school diploma	29.6%	33.6%
High school graduate	36.3%	39.1%
Some college or associate's	27.3%	16.8%
Bachelor's degree	2.4%	10.4%
Graduate or professional degree	4.3%	0.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
Drove alone	87.7%	73.9%
Carpooled	10.8%	19.4%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	1.5%	6.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
1-unit, detached	55.2%	68.0%
1-unit, attached	1.3%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	20.4%	9.8%
5 to 19 units	8.6%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	14.4%	22.2%

Poverty & households

	Carbon Hill	Parrish
Poverty rate	35.3%	33.4%
Average household size	2.28	2.68
Mean commute (minutes)	33	30
Median year structure built	1971	1962