Definition

• According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, per capita personal income "is calculated as the total personal income of the residents of a state divided by the population of the state."
  
  

2009

• The per capita income in Alabama in 2009 was $33,360, according the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is compared to a national per capita income in 2009 of $39,626. The total personal income of the state of Alabama was $157,084,638 in 2009.
  
  

Birmingham and Decatur

• The per capita personal income in the Birmingham-Hoover, Alabama, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in 2008 was $39,886. In the Decatur, Alabama, MSA, the per capita personal income was $32,483.
  
  

Mobile and Tuskegee

• The Mobile MSA had a lower per capita personal income than either Birmingham or Decatur at $30,567. The Tuskegee micropolitan statistical area's per capita personal income in 2008 was only $24,725.
  
  

Montgomery and Columbus

• The per capita personal income in Montgomery was $36,129 in 2008 and, in Columbus, Alabama-Georgia, it was $37,063.
  
  

Counties

• The per capita personal incomes in Alabama counties vary widely. In 2008, Autauga County's per capita personal income was $32,547, and that of Choctaw County was $26,763. The per capita personal income in DeKalb County was $26,059 in 2008, and it was $43,180 in Jefferson County. Monroe County's per capita personal income was $27,628 in 2009, and $39,954 in Madison County.