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Baileyton, AL

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Overview


Baileyton is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 673 people and just one neighborhood, Baileyton is the 336th largest community in Alabama. Much of the housing stock in Baileyton was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Baileyton economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Baileyton, where the median household income is $58,155.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Baileyton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.08% of Baileyton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Baileyton is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baileyton who work in office and administrative support (35.51%), sales jobs (4.79%), and management occupations (4.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Baileyton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Baileyton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Baileyton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.85 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Baileyton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Baileyton is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.09% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Baileyton in 2018 was $25,069, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,276 for a family of four.

The people who call Baileyton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Baileyton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Baileyton include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese 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 Baileyton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.0% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 18.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Baileyton, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Portuguese ancestry (4.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (10.0%) . 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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