Because there are quite a few people attending college in Florence, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Florence provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.05 minutes getting to work every day.
Florence is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.
In terms of college education, Florence is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.10% of adults in Florence have a college degree.
The per capita income in Florence in 2022 was $29,129, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,516 for a family of four. However, Florence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Florence is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Florence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Florence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Florence include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Florence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
