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01031 County FIPS Code

Coffee County

Alabama · County seat: Elba · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 01031 is Coffee County, Alabama. With a population of 53,559 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #26 in Alabama and #948 nationally. Coffee County is part of the Enterprise, AL. The state FIPS code for Alabama is 01. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

01031

State FIPS

01

AL

Population

53,559

2022 ACS · #948 nationally

Density

78.9/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

679

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Nonmetro — urban 20K+, adjacent to metro

RUCC 4

How This FIPS Code Works

01 031
01 = State FIPS (Alabama)
031 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 01031 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 01 (Alabama) with the 3-digit county identifier 031. Together they uniquely identify Coffee County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 01031

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 01031.

Median Household Income

$62,199

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

16.3%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

39.2

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (5)

Counties that share a border with Coffee County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 01031.

Federal Datasets Using Code 01031

FIPS code 01031 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 01031 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 01031
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:031",
    "in":   "state:01",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Coffee County, Alabama, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 01031
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '01031';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '01'
  AND county_fips = '031';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 1031 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 01031
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "01",
  county    = "031",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 01 (not 1) and 031 (not 31) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Coffee County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Coffee County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
36323 100.0%
36351 100.0%
36346 100.0%
36330 92.4%
36453 52.3%
36316 34.6%
36034 32.1%
36318 32.1%
36010 17.0%
36477 10.6%
36311 9.6%
36079 7.1%
36467 5.9%
36360 1.4%
36009 1.2%
36322 1.0%

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