Fort Payne is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 15,017 people and six associated neighborhoods, Fort Payne is the 49th largest community in Alabama.Unlike some cities, Fort Payne isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fort Payne are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Payne is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Payne who work in office and administrative support (11.08%), sales jobs (8.48%), and maintenance occupations (8.08%). 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. One of the benefits of Fort Payne is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.09 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Fort Payne is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Fort Payne who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.28% of the adults in Fort Payne have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Fort Payne in 2022 was $26,126, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,504 for a family of four. However, Fort Payne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Payne also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.48% of its population below the federal poverty line.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 23.70% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Payne include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Fort Payne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
