Brighton is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,237 people and just one neighborhood, Brighton is the 196th largest community in Alabama.
Brighton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Brighton is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brighton who work in office and administrative support (20.61%), healthcare suport services (15.90%), and maintenance occupations (9.33%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Brighton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Brighton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Brighton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Brighton has a very low overall level of education: only 8.79% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Brighton in 2022 was $20,022, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,088 for a family of four. Brighton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.58% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Brighton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brighton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brighton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Brighton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.95% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brighton include Irish, African, Latvian, German, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Brighton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Brighton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note, 74.4% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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 Brighton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 74.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.0% 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, 37.2% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.2%), and 11.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.9%).
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 Brighton, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.4%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report African roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.4%).
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 (42.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.