Hartford is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,696 people and just one neighborhood, Hartford is the 182nd largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Hartford, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.53% of Hartford’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hartford is a city of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hartford who work in office and administrative support (11.68%), healthcare (10.04%), and healthcare suport services (9.27%).
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, Hartford has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hartford a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Hartford is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Hartford has a very low overall level of education: only 8.35% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Hartford in 2022 was $22,852, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,408 for a family of four. However, Hartford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hartford is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hartford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hartford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hartford include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Hartford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Hartford, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Hartford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.2% 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, 39.6% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 11.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).
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 Hartford, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report German roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.