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 neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cottondale is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottondale who work in office and administrative support (13.40%), sales jobs (12.21%), and healthcare (10.17%). 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. Cottondale 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.The percentage of people in Cottondale with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.62% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Cottondale in 2022 was $29,887, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,548 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, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Cottondale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
