Red Bay is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,184 people and two associated neighborhoods, Red Bay is the 164th largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Red Bay is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.32% of the Red Bay workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Red Bay is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Red Bay who work in office and administrative support (11.84%), maintenance occupations (9.78%), and management occupations (7.35%). 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, Red Bay has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Red Bay a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Red Bay does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Red Bay who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.14% of the adults in Red Bay have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Red Bay in 2022 was $25,853, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,412 for a family of four. However, Red Bay contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Red Bay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Red Bay residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Red Bay also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.18% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Red Bay include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and French. The most common language spoken in Red Bay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Persian.
