About Wilsonville

Wilsonville is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,500 people and just one neighborhood, Wilsonville is the 254th largest community in Alabama.

When you are in Wilsonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.4% of Wilsonville's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Wilsonville is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilsonville who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.89%), management occupations (10.14%), and sales jobs (7.68%).

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

One downside of living in Wilsonville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

Wilsonville is a very car-oriented town. 96.93% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Wilsonville is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Wilsonville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

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

Wilsonville Information and Demographics

The citizens of Wilsonville are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.76% of adults in Wilsonville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wilsonville in 2000 was $21,112, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,448 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Wilsonville is English.