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Vandiver - Sterrett, AL

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Overview


Vandiver - Sterrett is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,629 people and just one neighborhood, Vandiver - Sterrett is the 187th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Vandiver - Sterrett is a blue-collar town, with 35.99% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Vandiver - Sterrett is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Vandiver - Sterrett who work in office and administrative support (13.15%), sales jobs (12.13%), and management occupations (11.58%).

Also of interest is that Vandiver - Sterrett has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Vandiver - Sterrett’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Vandiver - Sterrett is worth considering.

One downside of living in Vandiver - Sterrett, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

Vandiver - Sterrett is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Vandiver - Sterrett is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.17% of adults 25 and older in Vandiver - Sterrett have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Vandiver - Sterrett in 2018 was $32,347, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,388 for a family of four. However, Vandiver - Sterrett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Vandiver - Sterrett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America. 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.

People

If you are planning to retire in Alabama, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Alabama, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.6% of neighborhoods in AL. If a Alabama retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Vandiver - Sterrett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.6% 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, 36.0% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Vandiver - Sterrett, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (30.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (13.3%) . 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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