Langston is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 270 people and just one neighborhood, Langston is the 367th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Langston, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.11% of Langston’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Langston is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Langston who work in sales jobs (14.74%), office and administrative support (12.63%), and management occupations (9.47%).
Another notable thing is that Langston is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.
Langston’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Langston 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. Langston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Langston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Langston may be for you.
In Langston, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.29 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Langston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Langston are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.94% of adults in Langston having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Langston in 2022 was $38,376, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,504 for a family of four. However, Langston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Langston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Langston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Langston include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Langston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Langston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.9% of American neighborhoods.
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 Langston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% 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 58.9% 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, 49.8% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (11.3%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
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 Langston, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report German roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.