Ashland is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,942 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ashland is the 221st largest community in Alabama.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ashland is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.46% of the Ashland workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ashland is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashland who work in management occupations (12.30%), sales jobs (10.56%), and office and administrative support (9.70%). 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!) Ashland 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. Ashland has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ashland than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ashland may be for you.The percentage of adults in Ashland who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.82% of the adults in Ashland have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ashland in 2022 was $27,891, 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 $111,564 for a family of four. However, Ashland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ashland is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ashland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashland residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ashland include Irish, English, African, Scots-Irish, and German. The most common language spoken in Ashland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
