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ALABAMA POPULATION DENSITY*

Alabama Land Area - 50,645 square miles

YEAR
PEOPLE PER
SQUARE MILE
2020
99.2
2010
94.4
2000
87.8
1990
79.8
1980
76.9
1970
68.0
1960
64.5
1950
60.5
1940
55.9
1930
52.3
1920
46.4
1910
42.2

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ALABAMA HISTORIC & PROJECTED GROWTH 1790 TO 2040*

ALABAMA POPULATION BY COUNTY*

FARMS AND GREEN SPACE*

According to a USDA 2024 Study - For the years 2020 to 2023 Alabama alone lost a total of 300,000 acres of farm land. Showing a significant increase of recent land lost for farming

According to the American Farmland Trust - By 2040, depending on how Alabama handles development, it could lose a projected 310,800 to 751,500 acres of farmland.

NPG's STATE PROFILE

Click the image to read NPG's State Population Profile exclusively for Idaho.  This series focuses on state specific issues as relating to population growth.
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*Sources:
Farmland Information Center www.farmlandinfo.org
Census figures from U.S. Bureau of the Census
Estimates from Weldon Cooper Center, Demographics Research Group

 

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