| Back to: Bessemer main page, Alabama, United States. Total population: 29949 (Urban population: 27650, Rural population: 2299 (all nonfarm))

Houses: 12783 (11636 occupied: 6854 owner occupied, 4782 renter occupied)
Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Bessemer, Alabama:
- 1 room: 0
- 2 rooms: 48
- 3 rooms: 177
- 4 rooms: 627
- 5 rooms: 1454
- 6 rooms: 1927
- 7 rooms: 1300
- 8 rooms: 679
- 9 or more rooms: 642
Rooms in renter-occupied housing units and apartments:
- 1 room: 80
- 2 rooms: 243
- 3 rooms: 789
- 4 rooms: 1488
- 5 rooms: 1167
- 6 rooms: 607
- 7 rooms: 280
- 8 rooms: 74
- 9 or more rooms: 54
Year house built:
- 1999 to March 2000: 44
- 1995 to 1998: 479
- 1990 to 1994: 327
- 1980 to 1989: 1046
- 1970 to 1979: 2310
- 1960 to 1969: 2549
- 1950 to 1959: 2207
- 1940 to 1949: 1817
- 1939 or earlier: 2004
Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Bessemer:
- no bedroom: 15
- 1 bedrooms: 235
- 2 bedrooms: 1889
- 3 bedrooms: 3730
- 4 bedrooms: 787
- 5 or more bedrooms: 198
Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments and housing units:
- no bedroom: 101
- 1 bedrooms: 1102
- 2 bedrooms: 2060
- 3 bedrooms: 1238
- 4 bedrooms: 242
- 5 or more bedrooms: 39
Vehicles available in Bessemer in owner-occupied houses:
- no vehicle: 604
- 1 vehicle: 2447
- 2 vehicles: 2374
- 3 vehicles: 1013
- 4 vehicles: 250
- 5 or more vehicles: 166
Vehicles available in renter-occupied housing units:
- no vehicle: 1470
- 1 vehicle: 2365
- 2 vehicles: 750
- 3 vehicles: 158
- 4 vehicles: 26
- 5 or more vehicles: 13
Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2000 in Bessemer, AL:
- Less than $10,000: 79
- $10,000 to $14,999: 121
- $15,000 to $19,999: 96
- $20,000 to $24,999: 176
- $25,000 to $29,999: 311
- $30,000 to $34,999: 390
- $35,000 to $39,999: 435
- $40,000 to $49,999: 1035
- $50,000 to $59,999: 866
- $60,000 to $69,999: 545
- $70,000 to $79,999: 630
- $80,000 to $89,999: 380
- $90,000 to $99,999: 293
- $100,000 to $124,999: 514
- $125,000 to $149,999: 238
- $150,000 to $174,999: 150
- $175,000 to $199,999: 23
- $200,000 to $249,999: 85
- $250,000 to $299,999: 14
- $300,000 to $399,999: 25
- $400,000 to $499,999: 0
- $500,000 to $749,999: 0
- $750,000 to $999,999: 0
- $1,000,000 or more: 0
Rent paid by renters in 2000 in Bessemer:
- Less than $100: 678
- $100 to $149: 326
- $150 to $199: 778
- $200 to $249: 414
- $250 to $299: 436
- $300 to $349: 362
- $350 to $399: 471
- $400 to $449: 394
- $450 to $499: 222
- $500 to $549: 111
- $550 to $599: 43
- $600 to $649: 21
- $650 to $699: 15
- $700 to $749: 0
- $750 to $799: 7
- $800 to $899: 30
- $900 to $999: 0
- $1,000 to $1,249: 0
- $1,250 to $1,499: 6
- $1,500 to $1,999: 0
- $2,000 or more: 0
- No cash rent: 427
Household type by relationship Households: 29320 - In family households: 25236 (4124 male householders, 3908 female householders)
4061 spouses, 9719 children (8979 natural, 240 adopted, 500 stepchildren), 1690 grandchildren, 462 brothers or sisters, 244 parents, 646 other relatives, 382 non-relatives - In nonfamily households: 4084 (1518 male householders (1362 living alone)), 2200 female householders (2108 living alone)), 366 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 629 (595 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3217 2-persons, 2185 3-persons, 1487 4-persons, 711 5-persons, 252 6-persons, 180 7-or-more-persons Size of nonfamily households: 3470 1-person, 213 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 0 6-persons, 0 7-or-more-persons Year of entry for the foreign-born population (268 people)
- 1995 to March 2000: 90
- 1990 to 1994: 82
- 1985 to 1989: 9
- 1980 to 1984: 13
- 1975 to 1979: 40
- 1970 to 1974: 9
- 1965 to 1969: 5
- Before 1965: 20
Time leaving for work for workers 16 years and over in Bessemer, AL (9913 people)
- 12:00 a.m. to 4:59 a.m.: 466
- 5:00 a.m. to 5:29 a.m.: 297
- 5:30 a.m. to 5:59 a.m.: 516
- 6:00 a.m. to 6:29 a.m.: 1112
- 6:30 a.m. to 6:59 a.m.: 1185
- 7:00 a.m. to 7:29 a.m.: 1601
- 7:30 a.m. to 7:59 a.m.: 1473
- 8:00 a.m. to 8:29 a.m.: 815
- 8:30 a.m. to 8:59 a.m.: 403
- 9:00 a.m. to 9:59 a.m.: 284
- 10:00 a.m. to 10:59 a.m.: 236
- 11:00 a.m. to 11:59 a.m.: 53
- 12:00 p.m. to 3:59 p.m.: 731
- 4:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.: 703
- Worked at home: 38
Household income:
- Less than $10,000: 2776
- $10,000 to $14,999: 1305
- $15,000 to $19,999: 1157
- $20,000 to $24,999: 1040
- $25,000 to $29,999: 805
- $30,000 to $34,999: 813
- $35,000 to $39,999: 631
- $40,000 to $44,999: 595
- $45,000 to $49,999: 484
- $50,000 to $59,999: 638
- $60,000 to $74,999: 600
- $75,000 to $99,999: 573
- $100,000 to $124,999: 199
- $125,000 to $149,999: 46
- $150,000 to $199,999: 61
- $200,000 or more: 27
First ancestries reported:
- Other groups: 17167
- United States or American: 2267
- Irish: 701
- English: 506
- German: 388
- African: 335
- Subsaharan African:: 335
- Italian: 197
- Scotch-Irish: 185
- Scottish: 156
- French (except Basque): 124
- Dutch: 80
- West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 62
- British: 54
- European: 40
- Arab:: 38
- Bermudan: 31
- Polish: 27
- French Canadian: 21
- Lebanese: 21
- Swiss: 17
- Welsh: 16
- Jamaican: 15
- Greek: 13
- Swedish: 13
- Norwegian: 13
- Other West Indian: 11
- Palestinian: 9
- Armenian: 8
- Moroccan: 8
- Hungarian: 7
- Canadian: 7
- Czech: 6
- Turkish: 6
- Pennsylvania German: 5
- Bahamian: 5
- Austrian: 3
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