Fact text

  • A street named 'Fairhope Avenue' appeared on the 1910 board game The Landlord's Game, the direct precursor to Monopoly.
  • Fairhope was founded in 1894 as a utopian 'Single-Tax' colony by just 28 idealists who pooled their money to build a model society.
  • The Fairhope Single-Tax Corporation still quietly runs today, managing over 4,000 acres of leaseholds more than 130 years later.
  • Famous visitors like Upton Sinclair and Clarence Darrow once wintered in Fairhope, making it a magnet for artists and intellectuals.
Your
Fairhope
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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22035
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Total Population
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$
80106
Median Income
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$
321900
Median Home
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24
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Fairhope
ranks for retirees?
34
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
44
Healthcare
29
Climate
77

Results

Fairhope

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

Alabama does not tax Social Security benefits, which can meaningfully reduce retirees' state tax burden despite the state income tax.

State sales tax here runs about

4

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
4
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
44

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
44
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
29

The area has

3

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
77

A

Mild

climate — summers peak near

91

°F, winters dip to about

41

°F, with roughly

0

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Mild
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively High

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