Sipsey is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 356 people and just one neighborhood, Sipsey is the 355th largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sipsey is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.94% of the Sipsey workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sipsey is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Sipsey who work in food service (25.53%), office and administrative support (10.64%), and teaching (8.51%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Sipsey 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. Sipsey has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sipsey than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sipsey may be for you.
One downside of living in Sipsey is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sipsey, the average commute to work is 32.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Sipsey doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Sipsey has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.25% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Sipsey in 2018 was $11,852, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $47,408 for a family of four. Sipsey also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.71% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Sipsey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sipsey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sipsey residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sipsey include German, Irish, British, English, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Sipsey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 Sipsey, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.3% 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.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (60.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
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 Sipsey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% 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, 39.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.3%), and 16.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).
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 Sipsey, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.0%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.