Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Vance, AL

Vance is a town in southeastern Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, that also extends south into Bibb County; its Tuscaloosa County portion belongs to the Tuscaloosa metropolitan area and its Bibb County portion to the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area.

The town was first settled in 1830 by David M. Lindley and was originally called Trion, a trading post on the Old Huntsville Road.

The community was renamed Smallwood in 1872 for sawmill owner Charles Smallwood, then renamed Vance in 1879 in honor of Dr. William Vance of North Carolina.

Vance appeared on the 1880 census as the village of Vance's Station, but it did not formally incorporate as a town until 1972.

Vance is best known as the home of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International (MBUSI), the automaker's first plant in the United States and the first automobile manufacturing facility ever established in Alabama.

Construction of the $300 million Mercedes-Benz plant was completed in July 1996, and production began in January 1997 with the M-Class SUV - the first automobiles manufactured in Alabama.

The plant, located beside Interstate 59's Exit 89, employs about 4,000 people and has expanded over the years to build the GLE and GLS SUVs and the C-Class sedan.

The Mercedes era transformed Vance: its population grew from 500 in 2000 to 1,529 in 2010 and 2,092 in 2020.

The 2020 census counted 750 households in Vance, 46.1 percent of them with children under 18 living in them, and the town's median age was 33.0 years.

U.S. Route 11 passes through the center of Vance, leading west 21 miles to Tuscaloosa and northeast toward Birmingham.