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Rogersville, AL

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Overview


Rogersville is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,385 people and just one neighborhood, Rogersville is the 273rd largest community in Alabama.

Rogersville real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Rogersville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Rogersville is a blue-collar town, with 37.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Rogersville is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rogersville who work in management occupations (15.27%), food service (9.23%), and office and administrative support (7.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Rogersville 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. Rogersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rogersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rogersville may be for you.

In Rogersville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.54 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Rogersville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.55% of adults 25 and older in Rogersville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rogersville in 2022 was $41,661, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,644 for a family of four. However, Rogersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Rogersville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

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 Rogersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% 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 66.1% 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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.7%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

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 Rogersville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (43.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (9.2%) . 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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