Slocomb is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,093 people and two associated neighborhoods, Slocomb is the 216th largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Slocomb is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.50% of the Slocomb workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Slocomb is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Slocomb who work in sales jobs (16.53%), teaching (8.38%), and office and administrative support (5.43%). 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!) Slocomb 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. Slocomb has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Slocomb than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Slocomb may be for you. Being a small city, Slocomb does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Slocomb have a very low rate of college education: just 9.86% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Slocomb in 2022 was $22,801, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,204 for a family of four. However, Slocomb contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Slocomb also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.28% of its population below the federal poverty line.Slocomb is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Slocomb home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slocomb residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Slocomb include English, Irish, German, European, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Slocomb is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
