About Tanner

Tanner is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,240 people and just one neighborhood, Tanner is the 224th largest community in Alabama.

Tanner is a blue-collar town, with 42.4% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Tanner is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tanner who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.78%), food service (9.75%), and sales jobs (6.60%).

Tanner is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Tanner 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. 98.76% 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Tanner doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Tanner Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Tanner with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 11.37% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tanner in 2000 was $15,080, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $60,320 for a family of four.

Tanner is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tanner home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Tanner is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tanner include English, Italian, German, African, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Tanner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.