About Tanner

Tanner is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,240 people and just one neighborhood, Tanner is the 224th largest community in Alabama.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tanner is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.4% of the Tanner workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Tanner is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tanner who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.78%), food service (9.75%), and sales jobs (6.60%).

Tanner is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Tanner 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. 98.76% 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.

Tanner is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Tanner Information and Demographics

In Tanner, just 11.37% 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 Tanner in 2000 was $15,080, 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 $60,320 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Tanner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.