About Lester

Lester is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 100 people and just one neighborhood, Lester is the 359th largest community in Alabama.

Lester is a blue-collar town, with 59.5% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Lester is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lester who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.29%), farm management (7.14%), and architecture and engineering (4.76%).

Another important characteristic of Lester is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Lester telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.67% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 Lester, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.14 minutes every day commuting to work.

Lester is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lester isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Lester 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.

Lester Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Lester ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lester in 2000 was $16,073, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $64,292 for a family of four.

The people who call Lester home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lester is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lester include German, Scotch-Irish, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Lester is English. Some people also speak Polish.