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.Cottondale is a blue-collar town, with 39.55% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cottondale is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottondale who work in healthcare (11.30%), office and administrative support (9.39%), and sales jobs (8.26%). 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 Cottondale, just 11.37% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Cottondale in 2022 was $28,402, 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 $113,608 for a family of four. However, Cottondale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. 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, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African. The most common language spoken in Cottondale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
