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Ohatchee, AL

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Overview


Ohatchee is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,177 people and just one neighborhood, Ohatchee is the 286th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Ohatchee isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ohatchee are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ohatchee is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ohatchee who work in office and administrative support (10.73%), sales jobs (10.52%), and art, media, and design (9.01%).

Of important note, Ohatchee is also a town of artists. Ohatchee has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ohatchee’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, Ohatchee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ohatchee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Ohatchee, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.72 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Ohatchee who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.18% of the adults in Ohatchee have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ohatchee in 2018 was $30,515, 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 $122,060 for a family of four. However, Ohatchee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ohatchee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ohatchee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ohatchee include English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and German.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 43.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 20.0% have English ancestry.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Ohatchee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.5% 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, 38.1% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.2%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Ohatchee, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (37.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (14.0%) . 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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