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Webb, AL

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Overview


Webb is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,299 people and just one neighborhood, Webb is the 275th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Webb isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Webb are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Webb is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Webb who work in architecture and engineering (13.81%), healthcare (11.42%), and office and administrative support (7.92%).

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, Webb is worth considering.

Demographics

The population of Webb has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.55% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Webb in 2018 was $22,593, 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 $90,372 for a family of four. However, Webb contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Webb are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 31.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.3%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Webb, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.6%) 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 (7.9%) . 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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