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Five Points, AL

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Overview


Five Points is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 117 people and just one neighborhood, Five Points is the 398th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Five Points is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 61.90% of the Five Points workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Five Points is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Five Points who work in sales jobs (17.46%), teaching (7.94%), and management occupations (6.35%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Five Points’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

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

Demographics

The population of Five Points has a very low overall level of education: only 8.57% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Five Points in 2022 was $18,980, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,920 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Five Points is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 22.3% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.3% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Alabama, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Alabama.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.7% of 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 Five Points are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.1% 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, 31.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.8%), and 19.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 Five Points, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report German roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.5%).

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 (35.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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