Moving to Auburn, Alabama

About Auburn, Alabama
Auburn

Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama. The population was 76,143 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a 2020 population of 193,773, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 563,967 residents as of 2020.

Auburn is a historic college town and is the home of Auburn University. It is Alabama's fastest-growing metropolitan area and the 19th-fastest-growing metro area in the United States as measured since 1990. U.S. News ranked Auburn among its top ten list of best places to live in the United States for the year 2009. The city's unofficial nickname is "The Loveliest Village on the Plains", taken from a line in the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain..."

Gender
Gender Auburn Alabama Country
Female 50.6% 51.7% 50.8%
Male 49.4% 48.3% 49.2%
Gender
Created with Raphaël 2.2.051%49%Female50.6%

 Female Male
Household Income
Created with Raphaël 2.2.018%5%10%9%9%12%9%14%7%8%< $1000017.7%

 < $10000 $10K to $15K $15K to $25K $25K to $35K $35K to $50K $50K to $75K $75K to $100K $100K to $150K $150K to $200K $200K or more

Income Auburn Alabama Country
Less than $10,000 17.7% 8.1% 5.8%
$10,000 to $14,999 4.8% 5.6% 4.1%
$15,000 to $24,999 9.9% 10.9% 8.5%
$25,000 to $34,999 9.1% 10.5% 8.6%
$35,000 to $49,999 9% 13.2% 12.0%
$50,000 to $74,999 12.1% 17.5% 17.2%
$75,000 to $99,999 9.2% 11.8% 12.8%
$100,000 to $149,999 13.7% 13.1% 15.6%
$150,000 to $199,999 6.9% 4.9% 7.1%
$200,000 or more 7.6% 4.4% 8.3%
Education
Created with Raphaël 2.2.02%5%11%17%7%31%17%3%7%Bachelor Degree31%

 < 9th Grade 9-12th Grade High School or GED Other College Associate Degree Bachelor Degree Masters Degree Professional Degree Doctorate Degree

Education Auburn Alabama Country
< 9th Grade 2% 4% 5.0%
9-12th Grade 5% 9% 7.0%
High School or GED 11% 30% 27.0%
Other College 17% 22% 20.0%
Associate's Degree 7% 9% 9%
Bachelor's Degree 31% 16% 20.0%
Master's Degree 17% 7% 9.0%
Professional Degree 3% 2% 2.0%
Doctorate Degree 7% 1% 1.0%
Household Income
 Auburn Alabama  Country
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Education
 Auburn Alabama  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.0010203040Dr.DegreeProf.DegreeMastersDegreeBachelorDegreeAssociateDegreeOtherCollegeHighSchool9-12thGrade< 9thGrade2455971130271722207993116201779322711
Race / Ethnicity
Created with Raphaël 2.2.069%18%0%9%3%0%1%0%White68.9%

 White African American American Indian Asian Hispanic Hawaiian Mixed Other

Ethnicity Auburn Alabama Country
White 68.9% 65.2% 60.1%
African American 17.5% 26.4% 12.2%
American Indian 0.1% 0.4% 0.6%
Asian 8.7% 1.4% 5.6%
Hawaiian 0% 0% 0.2%
Other 0% 0.2% 0.3%
Multiracial 1.4% 1.9% 2.8%
Hispanic 3.4% 4.4% 18.2%
Race / Ethnicity
 Auburn Alabama  Country
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