About Lowndesboro

Lowndesboro is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,767 people and just one neighborhood, Lowndesboro is the 241st largest community in Alabama.

Lowndesboro is a blue-collar town, with 44.1% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Lowndesboro is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lowndesboro who work in office and administrative support jobs (9.36%), healthcare (7.75%), and management occupations (6.82%).

One downside of living in Lowndesboro, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.70 minutes every day commuting to work.

Lowndesboro is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lowndesboro 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. 98.8% 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.

Lowndesboro 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.

Lowndesboro Information and Demographics

The education level of Lowndesboro citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 16.60% of adults in Lowndesboro have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lowndesboro in 2000 was $19,067, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $76,268 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Lowndesboro is English.