Overall, Rainsville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Rainsville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Rainsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rainsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rainsville may be for you.
Being a small city, Rainsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Rainsville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.16% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Rainsville in 2022 was $27,308, 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 $109,232 for a family of four. However, Rainsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rainsville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rainsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rainsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rainsville include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Rainsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
