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Cedar Bluff, AL

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Overview


Cedar Bluff is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,899 people and just one neighborhood, Cedar Bluff is the 240th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cedar Bluff, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.03% of Cedar Bluff’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cedar Bluff is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Bluff who work in teaching (11.88%), sales jobs (10.19%), and maintenance occupations (7.81%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Being a small town, Cedar Bluff does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cedar Bluff is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.89% of adults 25 and older in Cedar Bluff have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cedar Bluff in 2022 was $27,751, 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 $111,004 for a family of four. However, Cedar Bluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Cedar Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).

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

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 37.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, one of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Cedar Bluff are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.9% 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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.1%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

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 Cedar Bluff, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (7.6%) . 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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