Calera is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 18,189 people and five associated neighborhoods, Calera is the 39th largest community in Alabama. Calera has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Calera, where the median household income is $82,441.00.Calera is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Calera is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calera who work in office and administrative support (12.48%), management occupations (11.99%), and healthcare (9.06%). Also of interest is that Calera has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.80% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. One downside of living in Calera, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.10 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small city, Calera does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Calera is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 37.11% of adults in Calera have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Calera in 2022 was $37,008, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,032 for a family of four. However, Calera contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Calera is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Calera home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calera residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Calera include German, English, Irish, African, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Calera is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
