Tuscaloosa is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 78,265 people and 24 constituent neighborhoods, Tuscaloosa is the fifth largest community in Alabama.

Unlike some cities, Tuscaloosa isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tuscaloosa are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tuscaloosa is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tuscaloosa who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.15%), sales jobs (12.87%), and teaching (10.35%).

Tuscaloosa is also a major college town with a large number of people who are 18 years or older and attending college. As is often the case in college towns, the many students that live in Tuscaloosa have a strong influence on the local culture and entertainment scene, which may seem dormant by comparison in the summer months when much of the student population is away. In the fall, the return of students has a reinvigorating effect on the community. Because colleges are lasting institutions, they have a stabilizing effect on the economy by providing direct local benefits such as jobs for faculty and staff and spending by students. Tuscaloosa's economy is one such example of this.

One of the benefits of Tuscaloosa is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.14 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

For the size of the city, public transportation in Tuscaloosa is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking taxis. For Tuscaloosa, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

Tuscaloosa Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Tuscaloosa is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.91% of adults in Tuscaloosa have a college degree.

The per capita income in Tuscaloosa in 2000 was $19,129, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $76,516 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Tuscaloosa is English. Some people also speak Spanish.