About Calera

Calera is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,971 people and just one neighborhood, Calera is the 204th largest community in Alabama.

Calera is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Calera is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Calera who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.24%), sales jobs (14.31%), and management occupations (8.48%).

Calera is a very car-oriented city. 97.86% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Calera is a small city, 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. Calera 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 city, Calera does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Calera Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Calera with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 13.26% of adults in Calera have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Calera in 2000 was $16,395, 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 $65,580 for a family of four.

Calera is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Calera home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Calera is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Calera include English, Irish, African, and French.

The most common language spoken in Calera is English.