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Lipscomb, AL

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Overview


Lipscomb is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,027 people and just one neighborhood, Lipscomb is the 215th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lipscomb, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.42% of Lipscomb’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lipscomb is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lipscomb who work in personal care services (7.66%), business and financial occupations (5.25%), and food service (4.48%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Lipscomb’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Lipscomb is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.22% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lipscomb in 2018 was $19,941, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,764 for a family of four. However, Lipscomb contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lipscomb is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lipscomb home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lipscomb residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Lipscomb also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.74% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lipscomb include Irish, Israeli, English, African, and Russian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Lipscomb, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% 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 Lipscomb neighborhood.

In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 87.2% of the neighborhoods in AL. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 51.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.1% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 33.8% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

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, 6.1% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lipscomb are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.9% 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, 51.2% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.4%), and 10.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.3%).

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 Lipscomb, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (9.2%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report African roots (6.1%).

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 (35.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (13.1%) . 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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