Somerville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 808 people and two associated neighborhoods, Somerville is the 315th largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Somerville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.48% of the Somerville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Somerville is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Somerville who work in sales jobs (8.70%), healthcare (7.61%), and maintenance occupations (6.88%). The town 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, Somerville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Somerville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Somerville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Somerville, just 13.00% 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 Somerville in 2022 was $22,924, 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 $91,696 for a family of four. However, Somerville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Somerville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Somerville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Somerville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Somerville include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Somerville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
