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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Curtis / Danleys Crossroads median real estate price is $104,159, which is less expensive than 86.3% of Alabama neighborhoods and 94.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Curtis / Danleys Crossroads is currently $1,107, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 86.5% of Alabama neighborhoods.

Curtis / Danleys Crossroads is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Elba, Alabama.

Curtis / Danleys Crossroads real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Curtis / Danleys Crossroads. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 17.8%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 83.6% 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.

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.

People

Of particular note, 5.5% of the people in the Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood stands out by having 91.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.7% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood in Elba are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.8% 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 Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood, 38.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

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 Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood in Elba, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Curtis / Danleys Crossroads neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (91.4%) 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 (7.0%) . 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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