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Holly Pond, AL

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Overview


Holly Pond is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 860 people and just one neighborhood, Holly Pond is the 310th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Holly Pond is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Holly Pond is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Holly Pond who work in food service (14.80%), office and administrative support (12.08%), and management occupations (7.55%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.65% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

One downside of living in Holly Pond, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.56 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Holly Pond with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.46% of adults in Holly Pond have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Holly Pond in 2022 was $23,242, 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 $92,968 for a family of four. However, Holly Pond contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Holly Pond home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holly Pond residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Holly Pond include English, German, Irish, European, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Holly Pond is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Holly Pond are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 18.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.2%).

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 Holly Pond, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.9%).

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 (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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