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Marion is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Alabama, United States. [2] As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 3,686, up 4.8% over 2000. First known as Muckle Ridge, the city was renamed for a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion.
Marion County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the population was 29,341. [1] The county seat is Hamilton. [2] The county was created by an act of the Alabama Territorial General Assembly on February 13, 1818. The county seat was originally established in Pikeville in 1820, and moved to Hamilton in 1881.
As of 2000, 96.7% of Alabama residents age 5 and older speak English at home and 2.2% speak Spanish. German speakers make up only 0.4% of the population, French/French Creole at 0.3%, and Chinese at 0.1%. In 2006 Alabama had a larger percentage of tobacco smokers than the national average, with 23% of adults smoking. [1]
Perry County is a county located in the Black Belt region in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,511. [1] Its county seat is Marion. [2] The county was established in 1819 and is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the United States Navy. [3]
Most of the city is located in Winston County, with a small portion of the western limits entering Marion County. Haleyville was originally named "Davis Cross Roads", having been established at the crossroads of Byler Road [5] and the Illinois Central Railroad. At the 2020 census the population was 4,361, [3] up from 4,173 at the 2010 census.
Hamilton is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1896 [3] and since 1980 has been the county's largest city, surpassing Winfield. It was previously the largest town in 1910. [4] At the 2020 census, the population was 7,042. [2]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2). The largest county is Baldwin (1,590 sq mi, 4,118 km 2) and the smallest is Etowah (535 sq mi, 1,386 km 2). [8]