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Columbia, AL
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Columbia is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 701 people and two associated neighborhoods, Columbia is the 330th largest community in Alabama.

Overall, Columbia’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Columbia has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Columbia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Columbia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Columbia may be for you.

Being a small town, Columbia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The population of Columbia has a very low overall level of education: only 8.61% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Columbia in 2018 was $29,569, 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 $118,276 for a family of four. However, Columbia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Columbia is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Columbia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Columbia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Columbia include German, French, English, Palestinian, and Irish.

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


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