Florence is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Florence enrolled in college, Florence has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Florence spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.07 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Florence is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.
The citizens of Florence are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.50% of adults in Florence have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Florence in 2022 was $31,735, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,940 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.
