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.
Slocomb is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Slocomb, just 9.86% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Slocomb in 2018 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.
