Sales tax in Alabama
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The Alabama state sales tax rate is 4%. Cities, counties and districts add their own on top, so the combined rate depends on where in Alabama you are.
State rate from Alabama local city and county tax rates, checked Sep 4, 2026.
What a $100.00 purchase costs in tax across Alabama
General merchandise. Prepared food, lodging and other categories can be taxed differently, and a tilde marks a figure estimated from ZIP-code data rather than a verified rate for one address.
- State rate only (4%)
- $4.00
- Verified
- Most common combined rate (~10%)
- ~$10.00
- Estimated
- Highest combined rate (~13.5%)
- ~$13.50
- Estimated
What makes up a sales tax rate in Alabama
- The state's share: 4%. Levied on every taxable sale in Alabama, wherever it happens.
- Local shares: nothing to ~9.5% on top. Counties, cities and special districts each add their own, and a seller collects them together. 457 cities in Alabama have their own pages with a figure below.
- Your exact address decides. A ZIP code is a postal route and was never drawn to follow tax boundaries, so two addresses sharing one can owe different totals. The calculator narrows it down from your ZIP code.
How combined rates are spread across Alabama
Number of Alabama ZIP codes at each combined general sales tax rate. Figures are estimates: a ZIP code that crosses a tax boundary is counted at its most likely rate.
| Combined rate | ZIP codes | Share of the state |
|---|---|---|
| ~0% | 2 | |
| ~4% | 160 | |
| ~5% | 18 | |
| ~5.5% | 4 | |
| ~6% | 30 | |
| ~6.5% | 13 | |
| ~7% | 25 | |
| ~7.5% | 14 | |
| ~8% | 43 | |
| ~8.5% | 41 | |
| ~8.75% | 3 | |
| ~9% | 98 | |
| ~9.5% | 31 | |
| ~10% | 212 | |
| ~10.5% | 38 | |
| ~11% | 29 | |
| ~11.5% | 6 | |
| ~12% | 21 | |
| ~12.5% | 3 | |
| ~13% | 19 | |
| ~13.5% | 2 |
Sales tax by city in Alabama
457 cities with a published or estimated rate. A tilde marks an estimate; the figure shown is the highest an address in that city is estimated to pay.
Cities covering the most ZIP codes
- Birmingham~11% · 42 ZIP codes
- Huntsville~10.5% · 24 ZIP codes
- Mobile~10.5% · 23 ZIP codes
- Montgomery~11% · 20 ZIP codes
- Tuscaloosa City~13% · 13 ZIP codes
- Hoover~11% · 9 ZIP codes
- Irondale~10% · 8 ZIP codes
- Adamsville~10% · 7 ZIP codes
Highest combined rates
- Albertville~13.5%
- Arab~13.5%
- Guntersville~13.5%
- Alabaster~13%
- Brookwood~13%
Lowest combined rates
- Union Grove~5%
- Lester~6%
- Grant~7%
- Thorsby~7%
- Anderson~7.5%
All 457 cities, A to Z
A 27 cities
- Abbeville~9%
- Adamsville~10%
- Addison~9%
- Akron~9%
- Alabaster~13%
- Albertville~13.5%
- Alexander City~10%
- Aliceville~10%
- Allgood~12%
- Altoona~12%
- Andalusia~10%
- Anderson~7.5%
- Anniston~12%
- Arab~13.5%
- Ardmore~9%
- Argo~11%
- Ariton~8%
- Arley~8.5%
- Ashford~9%
- Ashland~9%
- Ashville~10%
- Athens~10.5%
- Atmore~10%
- Attalla~10%
- Auburn~12%
- Autaugaville~10.5%
- Avon~9%
B 32 cities
- Babbie~10%
- Baileyton~8.5%
- Bakerhill~9.5%
- Banks~7.5%
- Bay Minette~10%
- Bayou La Batre~10%
- Bear Creek~11%
- Beatrice~9%
- Beaverton~8%
- Belk~11%
- Benton~10%
- Berlin~9%
- Berry~10%
- Bessemer~12%
- Billingsley~9.5%
- Birmingham~11%
- Black~8%
- Blountsville~10%
- Blue Springs~9.5%
- Boaz~12%
- Boligee~9%
- Bon Air~12%
- Brantley~10%
- Brent~10%
- Brewton~11%
- Bridgeport~9%
- Brighton~10%
- Brilliant~11%
- Brookside~10%
- Brookwood~13%
- Brundidge~8%
- Butler~10%
C 43 cities
- Calera~13%
- Camden~11%
- Camp Hill~9.5%
- Carbon Hill~10%
- Cardiff~10%
- Carolina~10%
- Carrollton~10%
- Castleberry~9%
- Cedar Bluff~10%
- Center Point~10%
- Centre~10%
- Centreville~10%
- Chatom~10%
- Chelsea~10%
- Cherokee~9%
- Chickasaw~10.5%
- Childersburg~12%
- Citronelle~10%
- Clanton~9.5%
- Clay~11%
- Clayhatchee~10%
- Clayton~9.5%
- Cleveland~12%
- Clio~9.5%
- Coaling~13%
- Coffee Springs~8%
- Coffeeville~10%
- Coker~13%
- Collinsville~11.5%
- Colony~9%
- Columbia~8%
- Columbiana~10%
- Coosada~11%
- Cordova~10%
- Cottonwood~9%
- County Line~10%
- Courtland~10%
- Cowarts~10%
- Creola~10%
- Crossville~9%
- Cuba~11%
- Cullman~9%
- Cusseta~13%
D 17 cities
- Dadeville~10%
- Daleville~10%
- Daphne~9.5%
- Dauphin Island~10%
- Daviston~9.5%
- Dayton~10%
- Deatsville~11%
- Decatur~11%
- Demopolis~10%
- Detroit~8%
- Dodge City~9%
- Dora~10%
- Dothan~10%
- Double Springs~10%
- Douglas~12%
- Dozier~8.5%
- Dutton~9%
E 17 cities
- East Brewton~11%
- Eclectic~10%
- Edwardsville~12.5%
- Elba~9%
- Elberta~11%
- Eldridge~9%
- Elkmont~8%
- Elmore~11%
- Emelle~10%
- Enterprise~10%
- Epes~11%
- Ethelsville~9%
- Eufaula~9.5%
- Eutaw~10%
- Eva~10.5%
- Evergreen~9%
- Excel~10%
F 20 cities
- Fairhope~9.5%
- Fairview~9%
- Falkville~12.5%
- Faunsdale~10%
- Fayette~11%
- Five Points~9%
- Flomaton~11%
- Florala~10%
- Florence~10%
- Foley~11%
- Forkland~9%
- Fort Deposit~10.5%
- Fort Payne~9%
- Franklin~11.5%
- Fredonia~9%
- Frisco City~10%
- Fruithurst~9%
- Fulton~10%
- Fultondale~10%
- Fyffe~9%
G 32 cities
- Gadsden~12.5%
- Gainesville~10%
- Gantt~10%
- Garden City~9%
- Gardendale~10%
- Gaylesville~10%
- Geiger~10%
- Geneva City~9.5%
- Georgiana~10%
- Geraldine~9%
- Gilbertown~9%
- Glen Allen~11%
- Glencoe~12.5%
- Glenwood~10%
- Goldville~9%
- Good Hope~9%
- Goodwater~10%
- Gordo~10%
- Gordon~9%
- Gordonville~10.5%
- Goshen~9.5%
- Grant~7%
- Graysville~10%
- Greensboro~10%
- Greenville~11%
- Grimes~10%
- Grove Hill~10%
- Gu-win~11%
- Guin~11%
- Gulf Shores~10%
- Guntersville~13.5%
- Gurley~10.5%
H 30 cities
- Hackleburg~9%
- Haleburg~8%
- Haleyville~11%
- Hamilton~11%
- Hammondville~9%
- Hanceville~9%
- Harpersville~10%
- Hartford~9.5%
- Hartselle~12.5%
- Hayden~10%
- Hayneville~10.5%
- Headland~10%
- Heath~10%
- Heflin~9%
- Helena~11%
- Henagar~9%
- Highland Lake~12%
- Hillsboro~9%
- Hobson City~12%
- Hodges~8%
- Hokes Bluff~12.5%
- Holly Pond~9%
- Hollywood~9%
- Homewood~10%
- Hoover~11%
- Horn Hill~10%
- Hueytown~10%
- Huntsville~10.5%
- Hurtsboro~12%
- Hytop~9%
I 3 cities
- Ider~9%
- Indian Springs Village~11%
- Irondale~10%
J 5 cities
- Jackson~10%
- Jacksons Gap~10%
- Jacksonville~9%
- Jasper~9.5%
- Jemison~8%
L 26 cities
- Lake View~12%
- Lakeview~9%
- Lanett~13%
- Langston~9%
- Leeds~10%
- Leesburg~9.5%
- Leighton~9%
- Lester~6%
- Level Plains~10%
- Lexington~8.5%
- Libertyville~10%
- Lincoln~12%
- Linden~10%
- Lineville~9%
- Lipscomb~10%
- Lisman~10%
- Littleville~10%
- Livingston~12%
- Loachapoka~12%
- Lockhart~10%
- Locust Fork~10%
- Louisville~9.5%
- Lowndesboro~10%
- Loxley~10%
- Luverne~10%
- Lynn~11%
M 35 cities
- Madison City~10.5%
- Madrid~9%
- Magnolia Springs~10%
- Malvern~10%
- Maplesville~11%
- Margaret~10%
- Marion~10%
- Maytown~10%
- Mcintosh~10%
- Mckenzie~10.5%
- Mcmullen~10%
- Memphis~10%
- Mentone~9%
- Midfield~10%
- Midland City~10%
- Midway~9.5%
- Millbrook~11%
- Millport~9%
- Millry~10%
- Mobile~10.5%
- Monroeville~10%
- Montevallo~13%
- Montgomery~11%
- Moody~10%
- Mooresville~10.5%
- Morris~10%
- Mosses~10.5%
- Moulton~9%
- Moundville~13%
- Mount Vernon~9.5%
- Mountain Brook~10%
- Mulga~10%
- Munford~12%
- Muscle Shoals~10%
- Myrtlewood~10%
N 15 cities
- Napier Field~10%
- Natural Bridge~9%
- Nauvoo~10%
- Nectar~9%
- Needham~8%
- New Brockton~9%
- New Hope~7.5%
- New Site~9%
- Newbern~8%
- Newton~10%
- Newville~10%
- North Courtland~10%
- North Johns~10%
- Northport~13%
- Notasulga~11.5%
O 13 cities
P 26 cities
- Paint Rock~9%
- Parrish~10%
- Pelham~11%
- Pell City~11%
- Pennington~10%
- Perdido Beach~11%
- Petrey~10%
- Phil Campbell~9%
- Pickensville~10%
- Piedmont~12.5%
- Pike Road~10%
- Pinckard~10%
- Pine Apple~8.5%
- Pine Hill~11%
- Pine Level~11%
- Pine Ridge~9%
- Pinson~11%
- Pisgah~9%
- Pleasant Grove~10%
- Pleasant Groves~9%
- Pollard~11%
- Powell~9%
- Prattville~11%
- Priceville~11%
- Prichard~10.5%
- Providence~10%
R 21 cities
- Ragland~10%
- Rainbow City~10%
- Rainsville~9%
- Ranburne~8%
- Red Bay~8.5%
- Red Level~9%
- Reece City~10%
- Reform~10%
- Rehobeth~10%
- Repton~10%
- Ridgeville~10%
- River Falls~10%
- Riverside~11%
- Riverview~11%
- Roanoke~10%
- Robertsdale~10%
- Rockford~9%
- Rogersville~8.5%
- Rosa~12%
- Russellville~10%
- Rutledge~10%
S 35 cities
- Sand Rock~9.5%
- Sanford~10%
- Saraland~10.5%
- Sardis City~12%
- Satsuma~10.5%
- Scottsboro~9%
- Section~9%
- Selma~10%
- Semmes~10.5%
- Sheffield~10%
- Shiloh~9%
- Shorter~11.5%
- Silas~9%
- Silverhill~9.5%
- Sipsey~9.5%
- Skyline~9%
- Slocomb~9%
- Smiths Station~9%
- Snead~12%
- Somerville~8%
- South Vinemont~9%
- Southside~10%
- Spanish Fort~10%
- Springville~11%
- St Florian~10%
- Steele~10%
- Stevenson~9%
- Sulligent~9.5%
- Sumiton~10%
- Summerdale~10%
- Susan Moore~12%
- Sweet Water~10%
- Sylacauga~12%
- Sylvan Springs~10%
- Sylvania~9%
T 18 cities
- Talladega City~12%
- Talladega Springs~12%
- Tarrant~10%
- Taylor~10%
- Thomaston~10%
- Thomasville~10%
- Thorsby~7%
- Town Creek~10%
- Toxey~9%
- Trafford~10%
- Triana~10.5%
- Trinity~11%
- Troy~9.5%
- Trussville~11%
- Tuscaloosa City~13%
- Tuscumbia~10%
- Tuskegee~11.5%
- Twin~11%
U 4 cities
- Union~10%
- Union Grove~5%
- Union Springs~10%
- Uniontown~10%
V 9 cities
- Valley~13%
- Valley Grande~10%
- Valley Head~9%
- Vance~13%
- Vernon~10%
- Vestavia Hills~10%
- Vina~8%
- Vincent~12%
- Vredenburgh~9%
W 20 cities
- Wadley~9.5%
- Waldo~12%
- Walnut Grove~12%
- Warrior~10%
- Waterloo~8%
- Waverly~12%
- Weaver~9%
- Webb~10%
- Wedowee~10%
- West Blocton~13%
- West Jefferson~10%
- West Point~9%
- Wetumpka~9%
- White Hall~10.5%
- Wilsonville~10%
- Wilton~13%
- Winfield~11%
- Woodland~9.5%
- Woodstock~13%
- Woodville~9%
Y 2 cities
- Yellow Bluff~11%
- York~12%
Why most Alabama figures are estimates
Of 812 ZIP codes in Alabama, 0 resolve to a single verified rate for every address inside them. The rest carry an estimate with its range, and the calculator will ask for more than a ZIP code where it needs to.
- 812 Some local taxes in this state are not yet mapped, so the real rate may be higher. 44 of the 501 Alabama cities we hold are not yet placed on a ZIP code, so an estimate can miss a city's share. It errs low, not high.
A ZIP code is a mail route, not a tax boundary. Where one crosses a city or district line, the rate depends on the street address, and no lookup by ZIP code alone can settle it. Enter your ZIP code in the calculator for the closest figure we hold.
Why you can rely on these figures
- Published rates
- State and local rates compiled from the tax authorities that levy them.
- Every figure sourced
- See the jurisdiction breakdown and the document each rate came from.
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- Where a rate is not verified we say so instead of showing a short total.
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