Kimberly - Trafford is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,969 people and just one neighborhood, Kimberly - Trafford is the 147th largest community in Alabama.
Kimberly - Trafford real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Kimberly - Trafford house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Kimberly - Trafford is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Kimberly - Trafford is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kimberly - Trafford who work in healthcare (13.75%), sales jobs (13.49%), and office and administrative support (12.17%).
Because of many things, Kimberly - Trafford is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Kimberly - Trafford really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Kimberly - Trafford perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Kimberly - Trafford is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Kimberly - Trafford, the average commute to work is 35.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Kimberly - Trafford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Kimberly - Trafford citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.62% of adults in Kimberly - Trafford have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Kimberly - Trafford in 2018 was $30,736, 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 $122,944 for a family of four. However, Kimberly - Trafford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Kimberly - Trafford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kimberly - Trafford residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Kimberly - Trafford include Irish, German, European, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Kimberly - Trafford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Kimberly - Trafford, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Alabama. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 97.6% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Alabama. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the 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 96.8% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American 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 neighborhood in Kimberly - Trafford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 61.4% of America'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, 36.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.6%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Kimberly - Trafford, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (2.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
