Clay is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 10,221 people and two associated neighborhoods, Clay is the 65th largest community in Alabama.Clay is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Clay is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clay who work in food service (9.49%), office and administrative support (9.47%), and sales jobs (7.63%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.41% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. One downside of living in Clay, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.20 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small city, Clay does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Clay citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.31% of adults in Clay have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Clay in 2022 was $33,528, 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 $134,112 for a family of four. However, Clay contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Clay is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Clay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clay residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clay include English, Irish, African, German, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Clay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Vietnamese.
