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Steele, AL

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Overview


Steele is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 997 people and just one neighborhood, Steele is the 297th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Steele is a blue-collar town, with 60.60% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Steele is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Steele who work in sales jobs (9.01%), healthcare (6.57%), and office and administrative support (6.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Steele 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

The percentage of people in Steele with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Steele in 2018 was $22,896, 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 $91,584 for a family of four. However, Steele contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Steele also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.03% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Steele is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Steele home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Steele residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Steele also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.26% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Steele include Irish, English, African, German, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of all American 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 Steele are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 30.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 39.9% 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 36.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 6.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Steele, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.0%), along with some Sub-Saharan African 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (8.4%) . 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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