The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fort Payne has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Payne a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Fort Payne does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Fort Payne who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.48% of the adults in Fort Payne have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fort Payne in 2022 was $27,039, 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 $108,156 for a family of four. However, Fort Payne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Payne is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Payne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Payne residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Payne also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.28% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Payne include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Fort Payne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
