Adger is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,017 people and two associated neighborhoods, Adger is the 118th largest community in Alabama.Adger is a blue-collar town, with 39.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Adger is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Adger who work in office and administrative support (22.68%), sales jobs (7.94%), and management occupations (5.53%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.47% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The town 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, Adger has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Adger a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Adger is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Adger, the average commute to work is 32.01 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Adger does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Adger with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.99% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Adger in 2022 was $31,075, 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 $124,300 for a family of four. However, Adger contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Adger is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Adger home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Adger residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Adger include German, Irish, English, European, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Adger is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
