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Brilliant, AL

Found within zip codes: 35565, 35563, 35548
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Brilliant, AL

This is a small community that is contained in a single neighborhood. As throughout the site, some neighborhood-level data are reserved for subscribers.

About Brilliant

Brilliant is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,862 people and just one neighborhood, Brilliant is the 238th largest community in Alabama.

Brilliant is a blue-collar town, with 53.9% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Brilliant is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brilliant who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.63%), sales jobs (8.42%), and management occupations (4.95%).

Brilliant is a very car-oriented town. 97.27% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Brilliant 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. Brilliant has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Brilliant 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.

Brilliant Information and Demographics

The population of Brilliant has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.32% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Brilliant in 2000 was $13,549, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $54,196 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Brilliant is English.