Attalla is a somewhat small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,836 people and four associated neighborhoods, Attalla is the 110th largest community in Alabama.Attalla is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Attalla is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Attalla who work in healthcare (12.70%), sales jobs (12.25%), and office and administrative support (11.54%). 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, Attalla has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Attalla a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Attalla does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Attalla, just 9.38% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Attalla in 2022 was $32,435, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,740 for a family of four. However, Attalla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Attalla is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Attalla home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Attalla residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Attalla include English, Irish, German, African, and Haitian. The most common language spoken in Attalla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
