Ashville is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,402 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ashville is the 195th largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ashville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.26% of the Ashville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ashville is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashville who work in office and administrative support (10.68%), food service (7.38%), and management occupations (6.23%). Also of interest is that Ashville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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, Ashville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ashville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Ashville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ashville, the average commute to work is 33.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Ashville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Ashville, just 9.32% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Ashville in 2022 was $25,875, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,500 for a family of four. However, Ashville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ashville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ashville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ashville include English, German, Irish, European, and African. The most common language spoken in Ashville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
