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Vincent, AL

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Overview


Vincent is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,008 people and just one neighborhood, Vincent is the 222nd largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Vincent is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.53% of the Vincent workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Vincent is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Vincent who work in sales jobs (13.02%), office and administrative support (8.28%), and healthcare (7.84%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Vincent is worth considering.

One downside of living in Vincent, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.19 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Vincent doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Vincent, just 7.58% 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 Vincent in 2018 was $23,007, 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 $92,028 for a family of four. However, Vincent contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Vincent also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.47% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.7% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry.

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 Vincent are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 53.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.8% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.9%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).

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 Vincent, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Mexican 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 (31.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (14.9%) . 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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