About Adger

Adger is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,009 people and just one neighborhood, Adger is the 201st largest community in Alabama.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Adger is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.6% of the Adger workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Adger is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Adger who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.12%), sales jobs (7.15%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (4.41%).

One downside of living in Adger, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.96 minutes every day commuting to work.

Adger is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Adger 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. 98.87% 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.

Adger 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.

Adger Information and Demographics

The population of Adger has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.74% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Adger in 2000 was $16,435, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $65,740 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Adger is English.