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Autaugaville, AL

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Overview


Autaugaville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 798 people and just one neighborhood, Autaugaville is the 316th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Autaugaville is a blue-collar town, with 49.73% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Autaugaville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Autaugaville who work in food service (9.57%), management occupations (6.12%), and healthcare (5.32%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Autaugaville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Autaugaville 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. Autaugaville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Autaugaville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Autaugaville may be for you.

One downside of living in Autaugaville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.57 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Autaugaville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Autaugaville in 2018 was $26,259, 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 $105,036 for a family of four. However, Autaugaville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Autaugaville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Autaugaville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Autaugaville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Autaugaville include English, German, Irish, European, and Jamaican.

The most common language spoken in Autaugaville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Autaugaville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 61.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 18.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (11.1%), and 8.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Autaugaville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (5.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Eastern European roots (1.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.5%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (13.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (86.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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