About Laceys Spring

Laceys Spring is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,079 people and just one neighborhood, Laceys Spring is the 139th largest community in Alabama.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Laceys Spring is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.6% of the Laceys Spring workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Laceys Spring is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Laceys Spring who work in sales jobs (7.87%), office and administrative support jobs (7.33%), and architecture and engineering (6.98%).

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

Laceys Spring is a very car-oriented town. 98.62% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Laceys Spring 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. Laceys Spring 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, Laceys Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Laceys Spring Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Laceys Spring rank slightly lower than the national average. 12.44% of adults 25 and older in Laceys Spring have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Laceys Spring in 2000 was $17,256, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $69,024 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Laceys Spring is English.