Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Tuscaloosa really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Tuscaloosa is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Tuscaloosa more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Tuscaloosa’s character and quality of life.
Not only is Tuscaloosa a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
The education level of Tuscaloosa citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.08% of adults in Tuscaloosa have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tuscaloosa in 2018 was $30,761, 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 $123,044 for a family of four. However, Tuscaloosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tuscaloosa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tuscaloosa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tuscaloosa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tuscaloosa include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Tuscaloosa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
