Elba is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,522 people and three associated neighborhoods, Elba is the 155th largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elba is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.33% of the Elba workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elba is a city of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elba who work in management occupations (15.22%), sales jobs (9.47%), and personal care services (8.61%). The city 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, Elba has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Elba a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Elba is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Elba 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. 99.90% 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. As is often the case in a small city, Elba doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Elba, just 10.04% 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 Elba in 2022 was $21,366, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,464 for a family of four. However, Elba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Elba is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Elba home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elba residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elba include Irish, English, German, European, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Elba is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
