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Coaling, Alabama.

A city in Tuscaloosa County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Tuscaloosa County’s.

Living in Coaling, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Coaling is a city of 2,035 people in Tuscaloosa County. Half its households earn more than $81,370 a year and half less, against $66,231 across Tuscaloosa County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Tuscaloosa County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,035 in the 2020 census
Household income $81,370 the median, give or take $8,627 · Tuscaloosa County: $66,231
Unemployment 3.8% Tuscaloosa County, August 2026; 3.3% a year before
Homes 90% lived in by their owners; 10% rented
  • 783households
  • 14%of adults have a degree
  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 32 mintypical commute
  • 5%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care24%
  • Manufacturing20%
  • Building trades13%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuscaloosa County had 98,620 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, 56° and 35°; warmest in July, 92° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 56° 35° F M A M J J 92° 71° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 56° and 35°; warmest in July, 92° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 56° 35° F M A M J J 92° 71° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Northport South weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Tuscaloosa County

  1. The University of AlabamaUniversity or college7,472
  2. Mercedes Benz US. InternationalLight utility trucks assembling on chassis of own manufacture6,029
  3. DCH Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,252FTE
  4. Tuscaloosa County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
  5. Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,176
  6. Tuscaloosa City SchoolsSchool district1,162FTE
  7. Lear Corporation - TuscaloosaAutomotive supplier803
  8. Bryce HospitalPsychiatric hospital705FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 136 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,477 people in all across the county; Coaling has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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. Heat wavesRelatively high
  3. Strong windRelatively moderate
  4. LightningRelatively moderate
  5. Inland floodingRelatively 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 Coaling’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 Tuscaloosa County.