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State Development Index

Alabama

#46of 5144C

Scored on 7 of 8 pillars. Missing: Manufacturing share of jobs. A pillar with a hole is not scored at all, because averaging the indicators it does have would hand the missing one the mean of the others.

Above: Nevada (45). Below: Rhode Island (44).

Starting up

How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.

62+7 vs median

  1. Business applications per 1,000 residents1.544 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
  2. State tax collected per resident$3,42780 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections

Population health

One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

7-43 vs median

  1. Adult obesity, 202438.9%6 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  2. Firearm-injury deaths per 100,000 (crude)23.78 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCDC NCIPC, CDC NCIPC 2024

Productive base

Output per worker and how much of the job base is manufacturing.

Not scored — an indicator is missing

  1. Output per worker$144,20616 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  2. Manufacturing share of jobs—— — no value published for this stateU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Labour market

How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.

49+0 vs median

  1. Unemployment rate3.4%70 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  2. Employment change, latest month-0.09%28 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Prosperity

What the average person in the state actually earns.

9-43 vs median

  1. Per-capita personal income$59,6774 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  2. Adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher29.9%14 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year

Things get built

Housing authorised per worker — a direct read on whether projects clear.

63+5 vs median

  1. Housing units authorised per 1,000 workers0.752 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsU.S. Census Bureau
  2. House price index (FHFA)548.174 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsFederal Housing Finance Agency

Fiscal standing

What the bond market thinks of the state as a counterparty.

92+0 vs median

  1. General-obligation ratingAa1 · Stable92 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsMoody's, indicative 2025

Openness

Whether you can get an answer out of the state without telephoning it.

27-24 vs median

  1. Open-data portal answers an APIPublished address answers nothing0 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
  2. Incentive, permit & finance datasets00 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA discovery, 2026-09
  3. Government or agency newsroom feeds380 percentile among the 51 jurisdictionsCEFA probe, 2026-09
Alabama — State Development Index — Applied America