Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is a somewhat small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 7,812 people and just one neighborhood, Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is the 87th largest community in Alabama. Much of the housing stock in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs, where the median household income is $56,961.00.
Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is a blue-collar town, with 35.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs who work in sales jobs (10.82%), management occupations (9.28%), and office and administrative support (8.70%).
Also of interest is that Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One of the nice things about Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is that it is nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.
One downside of living in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs, the average commute to work is 33.07 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.76% of adults in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs in 2018 was $35,001, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,004 for a family of four. However, Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs include Irish, English, German, Greek, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and Spanish.
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.
Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
is ranked among the top 5.6% of neighborhoods for first-time home buyers to consider in the state of Alabama according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Homes here are priced below median housing values in the state, yet maintain moderate appreciation rates compared to other communities. Buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but an investment opportunity for many first-time home buyers. In addition to being an excellent choice for first-time home buyers, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.0% 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 51.5% 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, 34.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households.
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 neighborhood in Bon Secour - Magnolia Springs, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Greek ancestry (1.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
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 (50.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.