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.Ashland is a blue-collar town, with 35.46% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ashland has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ashland a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.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.
