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Riverside, AL

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Overview


Riverside is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,234 people and just one neighborhood, Riverside is the 206th largest community in Alabama.

Riverside real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Riverside house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Riverside is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Riverside is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Riverside who work in office and administrative support (11.26%), sales jobs (9.66%), and management occupations (8.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Riverside has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Riverside has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Riverside than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Riverside may be for you.

One downside of living in Riverside, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.01 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Riverside is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.77% of adults 25 and older in Riverside have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Riverside in 2018 was $31,085, 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 $124,340 for a family of four. However, Riverside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

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 46.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.9% of American neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Riverside are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.8% 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, 46.7% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% 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 Riverside, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (30.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (91.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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