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Crane Hill, AL

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Overview


Crane Hill is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,549 people and just one neighborhood, Crane Hill is the 191st largest community in Alabama.

Crane Hill real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Crane Hill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Crane Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.51% of Crane Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Crane Hill is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crane Hill who work in management occupations (16.08%), healthcare (11.47%), and sales jobs (8.54%).

A relatively large number of people in Crane Hill telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.32% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Crane Hill is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

Because of many things, Crane Hill is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Crane Hill a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Crane Hill has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Crane Hill’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

The town 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, Crane Hill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Crane Hill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Crane Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.31 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Crane Hill are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.33% of adults in Crane Hill having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Crane Hill in 2022 was $43,050, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,200 for a family of four. However, Crane Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Crane Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crane Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Crane Hill include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Crane Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

In addition, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Alabama. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.

Real Estate

Real estate in the neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood. Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 44.7%, which is higher than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Crane Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.3% of America'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, 42.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 35.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.1%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.

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 Crane Hill, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.9%).

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 (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (8.5%) . 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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