What’s it like to live in Birmingham, AL?

Birmingham is a relatively large city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 212,461 people and 74 constituent neighborhoods, Birmingham is the largest community in Alabama.

Birmingham is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Birmingham is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Birmingham who work in office and administrative support (14.45%), sales jobs (10.04%), and management occupations (7.62%).

 

The education level of Birmingham citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.24% of adults in Birmingham have at least a bachelor’s degree.

The per capita income in Birmingham in 2010 was $19,827, 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 $79,308 for a family of four. However, Birmingham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Birmingham also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.92% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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