It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Somerville 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. Somerville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Somerville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Somerville may be for you.
One downside of living in Somerville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Somerville, the average commute to work is 31.93 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Somerville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Somerville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.17% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Somerville in 2022 was $28,159, 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 $112,636 for a family of four. However, Somerville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Somerville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Somerville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Somerville include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Armenian.
The most common language spoken in Somerville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
