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Seale, AL

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Overview


Seale is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,846 people and just one neighborhood, Seale is the 148th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Seale is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.54% of the Seale workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Seale is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seale who work in sales jobs (10.98%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and healthcare (9.63%).

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

One downside of living in Seale is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Seale, the average commute to work is 33.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Seale who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.42% of the adults in Seale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Seale in 2018 was $25,955, 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 $103,820 for a family of four. However, Seale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.9% 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.

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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America.

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 Seale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.5% of U.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, 36.5% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Seale, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (9.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.4%).

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.9%) 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 (5.7%) . 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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