Jackson is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,580 people and three associated neighborhoods, Jackson is the 130th largest community in Alabama.
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!) Jackson 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. Jackson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jackson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jackson may be for you.
One of the benefits of Jackson is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.73 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Jackson 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 percentage of adults in Jackson who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.68% of the adults in Jackson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Jackson in 2022 was $27,969, 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 $111,876 for a family of four. However, Jackson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jackson is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Jackson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jackson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jackson include English, Irish, African, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Jackson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Italian.