Tuscaloosa is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 100,618 people and 36 constituent neighborhoods, Tuscaloosa is the fifth largest community in Alabama.

Tuscaloosa is made interesting by being both a reasonably big city and having a major college student population: students here will find that the city provides a lot of amenities, culture, and opportunities for them. Tuscaloosa is more than just a college town, however, though the thousands of students certainly are a major part of the character of the city, as well as a contributor to the local economy.

Not only is Tuscaloosa a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Tuscaloosa is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Tuscaloosa a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

The education level of Tuscaloosa citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.61% of adults in Tuscaloosa have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tuscaloosa in 2018 was $27,789, 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 $111,156 for a family of four. However, Tuscaloosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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