Red Bay is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,171 people and two associated neighborhoods, Red Bay is the 164th largest community in Alabama.When you are in Red Bay, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.75% of Red Bay’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Red Bay is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Red Bay who work in maintenance occupations (10.38%), sales jobs (8.61%), and management occupations (7.89%). 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!) Red Bay 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. Red Bay has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Red Bay than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Red Bay may be for you. Red Bay 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 citizens of Red Bay are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.20% of adults in Red Bay having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Red Bay in 2022 was $29,327, 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 $117,308 for a family of four. However, Red Bay contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Red Bay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Red Bay residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Red Bay include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and European. The most common language spoken in Red Bay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Persian.
