Woodstock

Town of Brent
Incorporated	1996
Population	1,428
Mayor	Jeff Dodson
School district	Bibb County Schools
Government	Brent Town Council Brent Fire Department Brent Police Department
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Woodstock (formerly North Bibb) is a town straddling northern Bibb County and southern Tuscaloosa County, where Eastern Valley Road terminates into Alabama State Highway 5, and Highway 5 terminates into U.S. Highway 11. It is accessed from I-59/20 via Exit 97. The town was incorporated in 1996 and adopted its present name on October 1, 2000, following a public referendum.

Woodstock straddles two Metropolitan Statistical Areas, with its Bibb county residents counted in the Birmingham-Hoover MSA and its Tuscaloosa County residents in the Tuscaloosa MSA. At the 2010 census the population was 1,428, an increase of 45% since the 2000 census figure of 986.

The land on which the town developed was granted to William Houston on February 27, 1826. He and his family founded a community along the Tuscaloosa to Huntsville stage coach route. When the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad reached the community in 1870, J. U. Ray constructed a depot which he named "Woodstock" for the town in Oxfordshire where his ancestors had lived. Two years later the town became a junction for that line and a branch running to the coal mines at West Blocton. Storage yards were constructed. In 1872 Giles Edwards constructed a blast furnace at Woodstock to take advantage of the available materials. Edwards later partnered with his son-in-law, James McQueen, who eventually became president of the Sloss-Sheffield Iron Company.

The Woodstock Town Council has five members. Ty Corbell, Ernestine Johnson, Jerry Beams, Danny Frederick and Don Bowling were sworn in along with Mayor Jeff Dodson in November 2016. Tiffany McCulley is Town Clerk and Len Price is Chief of the Woodstock Police Department. Another industry, a jug factory, appeared in the 1880s. A newspaper published in Woodstock moved to Six Mile and from there to Birmingham, providing the foundation of the Birmingham News.

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.8 square miles, all land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 986 people, 355 households, and 290 families residing in the town. The population density was 353.8 people per square mile. There were 398 housing units at an average density of 142.8/sq mi. The racial makeup of the town was 98.4% White.

There were 355 households out of which 42.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.0% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.3% were non-families. 16.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the town the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 33.3% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $42,727, and the median income for a family was $46,477. Males had a median income of $32,368 versus $22,153 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,406. About 9.3% of families and 11.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.6% of those under age 18 and 8.5% of those age 65 or over.

References

• "Woodstock, Alabama" (May 9, 2017) Wikipedia - accessed May 11, 2017