About Vestavia Hills

Vestavia Hills is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 24,852 people and just one neighborhood, Vestavia Hills is the 17th largest community in Alabama.

Vestavia Hills is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.23% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Vestavia Hills is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vestavia Hills who work in management occupations (17.29%), sales jobs (17.10%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.31%).

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

Vestavia Hills, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the city.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Vestavia Hills is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." While both of these categories describe educated professionals, urban sophisticates are quite a different demographic. Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Vestavia Hills is a very car-oriented city. This is because most people - 99.3% - drive by car to work every day, and few people choose alternative modes of transportation, such as public transit, cycling, or walking. In general, car-oriented communities have a layout that emphasizes streets, highways, and ease of parking, and sometimes this can be to the detriment of human-scale priorities such as walkability alongside roads, and public spaces. For example, strip malls are something you will find in Vestavia Hills.

Being a small city, Vestavia Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Vestavia Hills Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Vestavia Hills, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Vestavia Hills is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 60.79% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Vestavia Hills in 2000 was $40,392, which is wealthy relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $161,568 for a family of four. However, Vestavia Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Vestavia Hills is English.