Tallassee is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,767 people and three associated neighborhoods, Tallassee is the 128th largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tallassee is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.80% of the Tallassee workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tallassee is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tallassee who work in sales jobs (11.60%), office and administrative support (10.51%), and healthcare (6.86%). 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!) Tallassee 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. Tallassee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tallassee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tallassee may be for you. As is often the case in a small city, Tallassee doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Tallassee is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.39% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Tallassee in 2022 was $27,014, 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 $108,056 for a family of four. However, Tallassee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tallassee is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tallassee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tallassee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tallassee include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Tallassee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
