About Springville

Springville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 8,211 people and just one neighborhood, Springville is the 76th largest community in Alabama.

Springville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Springville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Springville who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.40%), sales jobs (10.05%), and management occupations (8.44%).

In Springville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.77 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Springville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Springville 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. 98.39% 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.

Being a small town, Springville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Springville Information and Demographics

In Springville, just 11.13% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Springville in 2000 was $18,084, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $72,336 for a family of four.

Springville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Springville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Springville is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Springville include English, Irish, and German.

The most common language spoken in Springville is English.