Jemison is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,780 people and two associated neighborhoods, Jemison is the 183rd largest community in Alabama.Jemison is a blue-collar town, with 50.63% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Jemison is a city of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jemison who work in teaching (9.35%), sales jobs (8.87%), and office and administrative support (7.91%). Of important note, Jemison is also a city of artists. Jemison has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Jemison’s character. 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!) Jemison 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. Jemison has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jemison than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jemison may be for you. One downside of living in Jemison, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.79 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small city, Jemison does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Jemison are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.79% of adults in Jemison have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Jemison in 2022 was $26,255, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,020 for a family of four. However, Jemison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Jemison is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Jemison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jemison residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jemison include English, African, Irish, Dutch, and German. The most common language spoken in Jemison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
