Ohatchee is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,197 people and just one neighborhood, Ohatchee is the 286th largest community in Alabama.
Ohatchee real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Ohatchee house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ohatchee is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ohatchee is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ohatchee who work in sales jobs (13.12%), office and administrative support (10.89%), and art, media, and design (8.17%).
Of important note, Ohatchee is also a town of artists. Ohatchee has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ohatchee’s character.
Also of interest is that Ohatchee has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Ohatchee 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. Ohatchee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ohatchee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ohatchee may be for you.
One downside of living in Ohatchee is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ohatchee, the average commute to work is 34.47 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Ohatchee doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ohatchee rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.59% of adults 25 and older in Ohatchee have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Ohatchee in 2022 was $38,425, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,700 for a family of four. However, Ohatchee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ohatchee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ohatchee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ohatchee include English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and German.
The most common language spoken in Ohatchee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.9% 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.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Ohatchee are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.9% 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, 38.0% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.
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 Ohatchee, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.