Elba is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,522 people and three associated neighborhoods, Elba is the 155th largest community in Alabama.Elba is a blue-collar town, with 48.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Elba is a city of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elba who work in management occupations (15.22%), sales jobs (9.47%), and personal care services (8.61%). 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!) Elba 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. Elba has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Elba than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Elba may be for you. Elba is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Elba isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 99.90% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more. As is often the case in a small city, Elba doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Elba is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.04% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Elba in 2022 was $21,366, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,464 for a family of four. However, Elba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Elba is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Elba home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elba residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elba include Irish, English, German, European, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Elba is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
