640 Vital Statistics. 35 Condition Alerts found.
Median real estate price in the City Center of Bessemer is $71,102, which is less expensive than 84.7% of Alabama neighborhoods and 84.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Bessemer City Center is currently $945, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 43.4% of Alabama neighborhoods.
Bessemer City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Bessemer, Alabama.
Real estate in the City Center of Bessemer, AL is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the City Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Bessemer City Center. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 20.1%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 85.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
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.
Astoundingly, the City Center neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Bessemer neighborhood.
In addition, of note, 60.9% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
In the Bessemer City Center neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 21.7% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Bessemer City Center neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.3% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.
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 City Center neighborhood in Bessemer are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 60.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the Bessemer City Center neighborhood, 36.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 36.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.7%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 City Center neighborhood in Bessemer, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.4%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report African roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
The most common language spoken in the Bessemer City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.8%).
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Bessemer City Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.5%) 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 (21.7%) . 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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44 Vital Statistics. 4 Condition Alerts found.
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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau).
Date(s) & Update Frequency: 2016 (latest available). Updated annually.
Methodology: Unlike standardly available Census demographics, NeighborhoodScout uses dozens of custom models to transform 8.5 million raw demographic data elements from government sources into proprietary indices and insights…. Read more
136 Vital Statistics. 1 Condition Alert found.
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Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2016 calendar year; released from FBI in Sept. 2017 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2017 data?
Methodology: Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more
67 Vital Statistics. 7 Condition Alerts found.
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City Center | 0.101011101001110 |
Bessemer | 0.101011101001110 |
Alabama | 5.32 |
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City Center | 0.101011101001110 |
Bessemer | 0.101011101001110 |
Alabama | 29.48 |
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City Center | 0.101011101001110 |
Bessemer | 0.101011101001110 |
Alabama | 15 |
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Methodology: Only NeighborhoodScout gives you nationally comparable school ranks based on test scores, so you can directly compare the quality of schools in any location. Read more
65 Vital Statistics. 9 Condition Alerts found.
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Proficiency in Reading and Math | 0.101011101001110 | 0.101011101001110 |
Proficiency in Reading | 0.101011101001110 | 0.101011101001110 |
Proficiency in Math | 0.101011101001110 | 0.101011101001110 |
School Details | Grades | Quality Rating Compared to AL | Quality Rating Compared to Nation |
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Abrams Elem School
1200 23rd Street N Bessemer, AL, 35020 |
PK-05 | ||
New Horizon Alt School
1701 6th Ave N Bessemer, AL, 35020 |
07-12 | ||
Westhills Elem School
710 Glenn Rd Bessemer, AL, 35022 |
KG-05 | ||
Jonesboro Elem School
125 Owen Ave Bessemer, AL, 35020 |
KG-05 | ||
Jess Lanier High School
4950 Premiere Parkway Bessemer, AL, 35022 |
09-12 | ||
James A Davis Middle School
100 High School Drive Bessemer, AL, 35020 |
06-08 | ||
Charles F Hard Elem School
2801 Arlington Ave Bessemer, AL, 35020 |
PK-05 | ||
Greenwood Elem School
5012 Roselyn Road Southeast Bessemer, AL, 35022 |
KG-05 | ||
Bessemer Ctr For Tech School
4940 Premiere Parkway Bessemer, AL, 35022 |
09-12 |
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Raw data sources: U.S. Department of Education, 50 state departments of education, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dow Jones S&P, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies, Federal Housing Finance Agency, U.S. Bureau of the Census, American Community Survey, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Geological Service, U.S. Department of Transportation, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics, Federal Highway Administration, National Agricultural Statistics.
Methodology: Scout Vision uniquely solves for investment risk by generating Home Price Appreciation projections with unprecedented geographic granularity and predictive accuracy, for every micro-neighborhood (block group) in the U.S. Read more
328 Vital Statistics. 14 Condition Alerts found.
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