Slocomb is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,133 people and two associated neighborhoods, Slocomb is the 216th largest community in Alabama.Slocomb is a blue-collar town, with 39.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Slocomb is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Slocomb who work in sales jobs (13.41%), management occupations (8.44%), and teaching (8.21%). 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, Slocomb has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Slocomb a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Slocomb 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 rate of college-level education in Slocomb is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.34% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Slocomb in 2022 was $23,101, 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 $92,404 for a family of four. However, Slocomb contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Slocomb also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.88% of its population below the federal poverty line.Slocomb is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Slocomb home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slocomb residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Slocomb include English, Irish, German, European, and French. The most common language spoken in Slocomb is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
