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," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

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.

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

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.