About Chalkville

Chalkville is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,828 people and just one neighborhood, Chalkville is the 168th largest community in Alabama.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Chalkville is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chalkville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Chalkville who work in office and administrative support jobs (21.66%), sales jobs (13.11%), and management occupations (6.75%).

Also of interest is that Chalkville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Chalkville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Chalkville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Chalkville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Chalkville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Chalkville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.35% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Chalkville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Chalkville Information and Demographics

The population of Chalkville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Chalkville, 17.23% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Chalkville in 2000 was $19,929, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,716 for a family of four.

The people who call Chalkville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Chalkville is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Chalkville include Irish, English, German, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Chalkville is English.