The city 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, Oneonta has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Oneonta a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Oneonta, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.58 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Oneonta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Oneonta are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.60% of adults in Oneonta having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Oneonta in 2022 was $32,328, 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 $129,312 for a family of four. However, Oneonta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Oneonta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Oneonta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oneonta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Oneonta also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.30% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Oneonta include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Oneonta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
