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Graysville, AL

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Overview


Graysville is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,885 people and just one neighborhood, Graysville is the 226th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Graysville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Graysville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Graysville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Graysville who work in office and administrative support (17.78%), healthcare suport services (8.85%), and sales jobs (8.29%).

Also of interest is that Graysville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.37% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

In Graysville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.22 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Graysville are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.47% of adults in Graysville having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Graysville in 2018 was $32,131, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,524 for a family of four. However, Graysville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Graysville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% 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 neighborhood, 36.3% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Graysville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (5.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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