Alva’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Alva 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. Alva has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alva than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alva may be for you.
In Alva, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.45 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Alva is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Alva is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.32% of adults in Alva have a college degree.
The per capita income in Alva in 2022 was $43,192, which is upper middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $172,768 for a family of four. However, Alva contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Alva is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alva home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alva residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Alva include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Alva is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Spanish.
