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Margaret, AL

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Overview


Margaret is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 6,236 people and just one neighborhood, Margaret is the 117th largest community in Alabama. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Margaret, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Margaret, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Margaret’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Margaret does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $83,814.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Margaret is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Margaret is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Margaret who work in management occupations (13.23%), office and administrative support (11.95%), and healthcare (10.28%).

A relatively large number of people in Margaret telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.86% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

One downside of living in Margaret is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Margaret, the average commute to work is 36.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Margaret who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.02% of the adults in Margaret have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Margaret in 2022 was $28,283, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,132 for a family of four. However, Margaret contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Margaret is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

In addition, the neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Alabama. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Diversity

Significantly, 3.7% 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 99.8% 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 Margaret are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% 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.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.5%), and 7.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 96.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Greek and Italian.

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 Margaret, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (40.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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