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Fort Deposit, AL

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Overview


Fort Deposit is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,155 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Deposit is the 278th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Fort Deposit is a blue-collar town, with 52.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fort Deposit is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Deposit who work in sales jobs (10.65%), office and administrative support (8.70%), and healthcare (6.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Fort Deposit is worth considering.

One downside of living in Fort Deposit, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.38 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Fort Deposit ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.52% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fort Deposit in 2018 was $15,694, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,776 for a family of four. Fort Deposit also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Fort Deposit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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

One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (67.7%) than found in 98.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.9% of all U.S. 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 neighborhood in Fort Deposit are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 67.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.2% 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, 38.1% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 13.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

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 Fort Deposit, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (16.1%) . 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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