The overall crime rate in Danville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Danville 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. Danville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Danville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Danville may be for you.
In Danville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Danville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Danville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.83% of adults in Danville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Danville in 2022 was $30,178, 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 $120,712 for a family of four. However, Danville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Danville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Danville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Danville include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Danville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
