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Choccolocco, Alabama.

A community in Calhoun County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Calhoun County’s.

Living in Choccolocco, Calhoun County, Alabama

Choccolocco, in Calhoun County, had 2,838 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,838 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Choccolocco for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.0% Calhoun County, August 2026; 3.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Choccolocco for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,164households
  • 38%of adults have a degree
  • 9%below the poverty line
  • 20 mintypical commute

What people in Calhoun County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Manufacturing19%
  • Shops (retail)14%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Government7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 43,473 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 53° and 30°; warmest in July, 88° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 53° 30° F M A M J J 88° 67° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 53° and 30°; warmest in July, 88° and 67° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 53° 30° F M A M J J 88° 67° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Heflin weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Calhoun County

  1. Northeast Alabama Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital1,454FTE
  2. Jacksonville State UniversityUniversity or college1,275
  3. Calhoun County SchoolsSchool district949FTE
  4. New Flyer of AmericaAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture927
  5. Oxford City SchoolsSchool district484FTE
  6. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
  7. McWaneFoundries, iron346
  8. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 86 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,701 people in all across the county; Choccolocco has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. TornadoesVery high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively high
  3. WildfireRelatively moderate
  4. Strong windRelatively moderate
  5. LightningRelatively moderate
  6. Cold wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Choccolocco’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Calhoun County.