Chunchula is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 195 people and two associated neighborhoods, Chunchula is the 385th largest community in Alabama.Chunchula is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chunchula is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Chunchula who work in office and administrative support (45.90%), teaching (19.67%), and management occupations (16.39%). Overall, Chunchula’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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, Chunchula has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chunchula a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Chunchula is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Chunchula, the average commute to work is 32.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Chunchula is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Chunchula isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more. Chunchula is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, Chunchula is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.00% of adults 25 and older in Chunchula have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Chunchula in 2022 was $24,022, 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 $96,088 for a family of four. However, Chunchula contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chunchula also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 53.52% of its population below the federal poverty line.Chunchula is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Chunchula home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chunchula residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Chunchula include English, European, African, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian. The most common language spoken in Chunchula is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
