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Jacksons' Gap, AL

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Overview


Jacksons' Gap is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 753 people and just one neighborhood, Jacksons' Gap is the 323rd largest community in Alabama.

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

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Jacksons' Gap, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.77% of Jacksons' Gap’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jacksons' Gap is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Jacksons' Gap who work in office and administrative support (12.23%), healthcare suport services (11.70%), and sales jobs (11.17%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Jacksons' Gap is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Jacksons' Gap have a very low rate of college education: just 7.56% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Jacksons' Gap in 2018 was $21,671, 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 $86,684 for a family of four. However, Jacksons' Gap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Jacksons' Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Jacksons' Gap, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 95.5% of neighborhoods in America. 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 43.7%, which is higher than 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry.

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 Jacksons' Gap are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.4% 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 57.4% of America'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, 30.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (28.9%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Jacksons' Gap, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Lithuanian ancestry (1.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (31.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (8.3%) . 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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