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Scottsboro, AL
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Scottsboro is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 15,677 people and seven constituent neighborhoods, Scottsboro is the 45th largest community in Alabama.

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

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Scottsboro 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. Scottsboro has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Scottsboro than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Scottsboro may be for you.

Scottsboro is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The citizens of Scottsboro are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.58% of adults in Scottsboro having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Scottsboro in 2018 was $28,305, 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 $113,220 for a family of four. However, Scottsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Scottsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scottsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Scottsboro include English, Irish, German, Hungarian, and Scots-Irish.

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


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