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Maplesville, AL

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Overview


Maplesville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 651 people and just one neighborhood, Maplesville is the 337th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Maplesville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Maplesville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maplesville who work in office and administrative support (16.67%), art, media, and design (12.59%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.20%).

Of important note, Maplesville is also a town of artists. Maplesville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Maplesville’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Maplesville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Maplesville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Maplesville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Maplesville have a very low rate of college education: just 7.18% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Maplesville in 2018 was $26,102, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,408 for a family of four. However, Maplesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.4% of 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 Maplesville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.8% 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, 39.4% 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 22.1% 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 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).

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 Maplesville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (5.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (2.7%).

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 (32.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (89.2%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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