Residents with income below the poverty level in 2007:
| This town: |  16.0% | | Whole state: |  16.1% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2007:
| This town: | 7.6% | | Whole state: | 7.3% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Leesburg, AL
Leesburg compared to Alabama state average:
- Median house value below state average.
- Unemployed percentage below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Renting percentage significantly below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Banks with branches in Leesburg (2009 data):
- First Southern State Bank: Leesburg Branch at State Highway 68 And County Highway 44, branch established on 1973-11-26. Info updated 2009-01-06: Bank assets: $329.8 mil, Deposits: $272.4 mil, headquarters in Stevenson, AL, positive income, Commercial Lending Specialization, 7 total offices, Holding Company: First Bancshares Of Stevenson, Inc.
School Enrollment by Level of School
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2004 Presidential Election results in Cherokee County Alabama:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Electricity (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
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Religion statistics for Leesburg
| Name | Southern Baptist Convention | United Methodist Church | Churches of Christ | Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | Other religions |
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| Adherents | 79.1% | 16.1% | 1.7% | 1.6% | 1.5% |
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| Congregations | 61.3% | 27.5% | 5.0% | 2.5% | 3.8% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
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Local government employment and payroll (March 2007)
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| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Other Government Administration |
0 | $0 | | 7 | $715 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
3 | $9,212 | $36,848 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
1 | $2,082 | $24,984 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
4 | $11,294 | $33,882 | 7 | $715 |
Leesburg government finances in 2002:
- Charges - All Other: $7,000
Sewerage: $0
- Current Operations - Electric Utilities: $51,000
Financial Administration: $37,000
Regular Highways: $23,000
Parks & Recreation: $6,000
Health Services - Other: $4,000
Police Protection: $3,000
Solid Waste Management: $2,000
- Electric Utilities - Interest on Debt: $1,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Electric Utilities: $11,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Electric Utilities: $3,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Electric Utilities: $8,000
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $15,000
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $500,000
- Revenue - Electric Utilities: $84,000
- State Intergovernmental - General Support: $32,000
Highways: $22,000
- Tax - Total General Sales: $150,000
NEC: $121,000
Other Selective Sales: $32,000
Property: $26,000
Public Utilities: $14,000
Motor Vehicle License: $4,000
- Total Salaries & Wages: $104,000
6.67% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($36,456 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.67% | | Alabama average: | 6.81% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
5.57% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($28,802 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 5.57% | | Alabama average: | 6.16% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Leesburg:
- WNSI (810 AM; 50 kW; JACKSONVILLE, AL; Owner: UNITED BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.)
- WEIS (990 AM; 1 kW; CENTRE, AL; Owner: BAKER ENTERPRISES, INC.)
- WKNG (1060 AM; daytime; 50 kW; TALLAPOOSA, GA; Owner: WKNG, INC.)
- WAAX (570 AM; 5 kW; GADSDEN, AL; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WWAM (820 AM; daytime; 50 kW; JASPER, TN; Owner: SHELTON BROADCASTING SYSTEM)
- WQRX (870 AM; daytime; 10 kW; VALLEY HEAD, AL; Owner: BARINOWSKI INVESTMENT COMPANY)
- WZOB (1250 AM; 5 kW; FORT PAYNE, AL; Owner: CENTRAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
- WJBY (930 AM; 5 kW; RAINBOW CITY, AL; Owner: GADSDEN BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
- WDJC (850 AM; 50 kW; BIRMINGHAM, AL; Owner: KIMTRON, INC.)
- WFLI (1070 AM; 50 kW; LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TN; Owner: WFLI, INC.)
- WGST (640 AM; 50 kW; ATLANTA, GA; Owner: CITICASTERS LICENSES, L.P.)
- WFTD (1080 AM; daytime; 50 kW; MARIETTA, GA; Owner: PRIETO ENTERPRISES, INC.)
- WJOX (690 AM; 50 kW; BIRMINGHAM, AL; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
Strongest FM radio stations in Leesburg:
- WRHY (105.9 FM; CENTRE, AL; Owner: WILLIAMS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WQSB (105.1 FM; ALBERTVILLE, AL; Owner: SAND MOUNTAIN BROADCASTING SERVICE, INC.)
- WTBB (89.9 FM; GADSDEN, AL; Owner: TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY)
- WGMZ (93.1 FM; GLENCOE, AL; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WLJS-FM (91.9 FM; JACKSONVILLE, AL; Owner: BD. OF TRUSTEES/JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WSGN (91.5 FM; GADSDEN, AL; Owner: GADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE)
- WTBJ (91.3 FM; OXFORD, AL; Owner: TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY)
- WJCK (88.3 FM; PIEDMONT, AL; Owner: IMMANUEL BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.)
- W215BA (90.9 FM; ROME, GA; Owner: PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, INC.)
- WVOK-FM (97.9 FM; OXFORD, AL; Owner: WOODARD BROADCASTING CO. INC.)
- WKCX (97.7 FM; ROME, GA; Owner: BRIAR CREEK BROADCASTING CORP.)
- WKXX (102.9 FM; ATTALLA, AL; Owner: BROADCAST MEDIA LLC)
- WQTU (102.3 FM; ROME, GA; Owner: MCDOUGALD BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- W212AR (90.3 FM; LINDALE, GA; Owner: WAY-FM MEDIA GROUP, INC.)
- WBDX (102.7 FM; TRENTON, GA; Owner: PARTNERS FOR CHRISTIAN RADIO, INC.)
- WKEA-FM (98.3 FM; SCOTTSBORO, AL; Owner: KEA RADIO, INC.)
- WATG (95.7 FM; TRION, GA; Owner: TTA BROADCASTING, INC)
- WCKS (102.7 FM; FRUITHURST, AL; Owner: WCKS, INC.)
- WTWX-FM (95.9 FM; GUNTERSVILLE, AL; Owner: GUNTERSVILLE BROADCASTING CO., INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Leesburg:
- WPXH (Channel 44; GADSDEN, AL; Owner: PAXSON COMMUNICATIONS LICENSE COMPANY, LLC)
- W64BJ (Channel 64; SCOTTSBORO, AL; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
Leesburg, Alabama:
- Fatal accident count: 9
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 14
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 3
- Fatalities: 12
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 19
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 0
Alabama average:
- Fatal accident count: 97
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 152
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 25
- Fatalities: 107
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 250
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 8
See more detailed statistics of Leesburg fatal car crashes and road traffic accidents for 1975 - 2008 here
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 1
Total length: 3 meters (10ft)
Total costs: $822,000
Total average daily traffic: 5,090
Total average daily truck traffic: 763
Total future (year 2027) average daily traffic: 5,201
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 2- Sand Rock, 4600 County Road 70, Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 95.7 m, Call Sign: KNKN960
880.020 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 891.510 MHz, 846.510 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 880.020 MHz, 880.020 MHz, 835.020 MHz, 891.510 MHz, 846.510 MHz... (+8 more)
Grant Date: 10/10/2001, Expiration Date: 10/01/2011, Certifier: Michael P Goggin
Registrant: At&t Mobility LLC, 1120 20th Street, Nw, Washington, DC 20036, Phone: (202) 457-2055, Fax: (202) 457-3074, Email:
- Rt 4111 & Sr 68 At Leesburg, Structure height: 44 m, Call Sign: KNKN936
Assigned Frequencies : 869.040 MHz, 890.010 MHz, 834.390 MHz, 879.390 MHz, 824.040 MHz, 845.010 MHz
Grant Date: 10/16/2001, Expiration Date: 10/01/2011, Certifier: John T Scott Iii
Registrant: Verizon Wireless, 1120 Sanctuary Pkwy, #150 Gasa5reg, Alpharetta, GA 30004, Phone: (770) 797-1070, Fax: (770) 797-1036, Email:
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 4- Bonnie K Clark, Rt 4111 & Sr 68, Type: Tower, Structure height: 39.6 m, Overall height: 44.2 m
Registrant: Crown Castle Usa Inc., 2000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317, Phone: (724) 416-2516, Email:
- Taylor Robinson, Leesburg, Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.4 m
Registrant: Foresite, LLC, 22 Inverness Center Pkwy, Suite 500, Birmingham, AL 35242, Phone: (205) 437-3200, Email:
- MUAYYAD MUSTAFA, 3200' W Of Hwy 68, 2 Miles N Of Intersect. Of Hwys 68 & 25, Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 95.7 m
Registrant: At&t Mobility LLC, 5601 Legacy Drive, Ms:a-3, Plano, TX 75024, Phone: (469) 229-7422 - Randal C Wilkie, Hwy 68 & 411, Type: Tower, Structure height: 91 m, Overall height: 91 m
Registrant: Cherokee Electric Coop, Centre, AL 35960, Phone: (256) 927-5524, Email:
FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers: 1- Atop Lookout Mountain, Type: Tower, Structure height: 91 m, Call Sign: WPKX581
Assigned Frequencies : 929.787 MHz
Grant Date: 09/08/1997, Expiration Date: 09/08/2007, Cancelation Date: 10/27/2007, Certifier: Paul H Kuzia
Registrant: Venable, LLP, 575 7th Street, Nw, Washington, DC 20004, Phone: (202) 344-4000, Fax: (202) 344-8300, Email:
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 3- Lat: 34.186750 Lon: -85.755528, Call Sign: WPBM323
Assigned Frequencies : 467.200 MHz
Grant Date: 01/01/2003, Expiration Date: 01/12/2013
Registrant: Mccord Communications Inc, 1508 Noble Street, Anniston, AL 36201, Phone: (256) 237-6697, Fax: (256) 237-6631, Email:
- 405 Industrial Blvd, Call Sign: WPTB754, Licensee ID: L00373352
Assigned Frequencies : 462.937 MHz, 452.187 MHz, 451.512 MHz, 451.412 MHz
Grant Date: 08/23/2001, Expiration Date: 08/23/2011, Certifier: John W Boyer
Registrant: Kth Leesburg Products LLC - TUCKER CHAPEL VALVE, Intersection Cr43 & Cr142, Type: Pipe, Structure height: 6.1 m, Call Sign: WPXE879
Assigned Frequencies : 453.237 MHz
Grant Date: 03/19/2003, Expiration Date: 03/19/2013, Certifier: Max L Hunter
Registrant: Dexter Forton Associates Inc, 910 Ploof Dr, Hueytown, AL 35023, Phone: (205) 432-2700, Fax: (205) 491-4751, Email:
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 3- LEESBURG, Cr 70, Overall height: 44.2 m, Call Sign: WMW713
6197.24 MHz, 6256.54 MHz, 6315.84 MHz, 6375.14 MHz, 6197.24 MHz, 6315.84 MHz, 6256.54 MHz, 6375.14 MHz, 6197.24 MHz, 6315.84 MHz... (+6 more)
Grant Date: 02/06/2001, Expiration Date: 02/01/2011, Certifier: John T Scott Iii
Registrant: Verizon Wireless, 1120 Sanctuary Pkwy, #150 Gasa5reg, Alpharetta, GA 30004, Phone: (770) 797-1070, Fax: (770) 797-1036, Email:
- STATION, Weiss Dam 5 Mi Sw Of, Overall height: 50.6 m, Call Sign: KBU83
Assigned Frequencies : 6745.00 MHz
Grant Date: 08/14/1998, Expiration Date: 09/30/2008, Cancelation Date: 05/02/2003
Registrant: Mcdermott, Will & Emery, 600 13th Street, Nw, Washington, DC 20005-3096, Phone: (202) 756-8283, Fax: (202) 756-8087, Email:
- LEESBURG, 2.5 Mi Wnw Of, Overall height: 51.8 m, Call Sign: WLC554, Licensee ID: L00896575
Assigned Frequencies : 6226.90 MHz, 6286.20 MHz, 6345.50 MHz, 6404.80 MHz, 6226.90 MHz, 6286.20 MHz, 6345.50 MHz, 6404.80 MHz
Grant Date: 03/13/2001, Expiration Date: 02/01/2011, Certifier: Robert A Esty
Registrant: International Communications Group, Inc. D/B/A Corban Networks
FCC Registered Paging Towers: 3- Rock City Rd, 4 Mi W Of Hwy 68, Overall height: 36.6 m, Call Sign: KIM913
Assigned Frequencies : 152.750 MHz
Expiration Date: 07/01/1998, Cancelation Date: 07/02/1998
Registrant: Tds Telecom, 301 S Westfield Road, Madison, WI 53717, Phone: (608) 845-4091 - Near Alabama Hwy#68, 2 Miles Nw Of Leesburg, Call Sign: KUS361
Assigned Frequencies : 152.840 MHz
Expiration Date: 07/01/1998, Cancelation Date: 07/02/1998
Registrant: Tds Telecom, 301 S Westfield Road, Madison, WI 53717, Phone: (608) 845-4091 - Rock City Rd, 4 Mi W Of Hwy 68, Overall height: 36.6 m, Call Sign: KUS361
Assigned Frequencies : 152.840 MHz
Expiration Date: 07/01/1998, Cancelation Date: 07/02/1998
Registrant: Tds Telecom, 301 S Westfield Road, Madison, WI 53717, Phone: (608) 845-4091
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 10 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Leesburg)
FAA Registered Aircrafts: 1- Aircraft: STARGEL AUBREY WAYNE BBS (Rotorcraft, Category: Land, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: Reciprocating
N-Number: 68WS , Serial Number: 101
Registrant (Individual): Aubrey W Stargell, 1970 County Road 36, Leesburg, AL 35983
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:- Fire: 28
- Hazardous Condition: 17
Incident types - Leesburg
See Full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Statistics for Leesburg, AL
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