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Remlap - Locust Fork, AL

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Overview


Remlap - Locust Fork is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,932 people and just one neighborhood, Remlap - Locust Fork is the 109th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Remlap - Locust Fork is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Remlap - Locust Fork is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Remlap - Locust Fork who work in office and administrative support (16.13%), sales jobs (10.12%), and personal care services (7.86%).

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, Remlap - Locust Fork has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Remlap - Locust Fork a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Remlap - Locust Fork is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Remlap - Locust Fork, the average commute to work is 35.53 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Remlap - Locust Fork 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

In Remlap - Locust Fork, just 9.35% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Remlap - Locust Fork in 2018 was $24,790, 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 $99,160 for a family of four. However, Remlap - Locust Fork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Remlap - Locust Fork is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American 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 Remlap - Locust Fork, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.6% 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.

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 Remlap - Locust Fork are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.8% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.2%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.1%).

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 Remlap - Locust Fork, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (90.8%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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