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Samson, AL

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Overview


Samson is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,855 people and just one neighborhood, Samson is the 235th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Samson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.76% of the Samson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Samson is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Samson who work in office and administrative support (12.98%), management occupations (9.88%), and maintenance occupations (9.11%).

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!) Samson 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. Samson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Samson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Samson may be for you.

One downside of living in Samson, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.19 minutes every day commuting to work.

Samson 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

The percentage of people in Samson with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.24% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Samson in 2018 was $22,198, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,792 for a family of four. However, Samson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Samson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.62% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

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 Samson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.9% of all 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 Samson are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.6% 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, 31.3% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).

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 Samson, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish 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 (32.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (10.0%) . 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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