Cottondale is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,130 people and three associated neighborhoods, Cottondale is the 170th largest community in Alabama.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cottondale is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cottondale is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottondale who work in office and administrative support (12.90%), architecture and engineering (11.19%), and sales jobs (10.79%). Also of interest is that Cottondale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Cottondale 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. Cottondale has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cottondale than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cottondale may be for you. As is often the case in a small town, Cottondale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In terms of college education, the citizens of Cottondale rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.90% of adults 25 and older in Cottondale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Cottondale in 2022 was $31,117, 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 $124,468 for a family of four. However, Cottondale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cottondale also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.96% of its population below the federal poverty line.Cottondale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottondale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottondale residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cottondale include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Armenian. The most common language spoken in Cottondale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
