Heflin is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,557 people and two associated neighborhoods, Heflin is the 159th largest community in Alabama.Heflin is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.07% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Heflin is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heflin who work in sales jobs (12.29%), healthcare (10.49%), and healthcare suport services (9.81%). Also of interest is that Heflin has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Heflin 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. Heflin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Heflin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Heflin may be for you. One downside of living in Heflin is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Heflin, the average commute to work is 31.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Heflin is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Heflin are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.22% of adults in Heflin having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Heflin in 2022 was $29,448, 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 $117,792 for a family of four. However, Heflin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Heflin is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Heflin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heflin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Heflin include English, Irish, European, Turkish, and German. The most common language spoken in Heflin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
