Overall, Hamilton’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hamilton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hamilton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Hamilton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Hamilton, just 11.13% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hamilton in 2018 was $23,764, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,056 for a family of four. However, Hamilton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hamilton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hamilton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hamilton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hamilton include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Hamilton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
