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Allgood, AL

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Overview


Allgood is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 553 people and just one neighborhood, Allgood is the 342nd largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Allgood is a blue-collar town, with 66.86% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Allgood is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Allgood who work in business and financial occupations (9.35%), sales jobs (5.38%), and healthcare (4.82%).

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

In Allgood, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.61 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Allgood 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

The citizens of Allgood have a very low rate of college education: just 7.34% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Allgood in 2022 was $22,770, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,080 for a family of four. However, Allgood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Allgood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Allgood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Allgood, accounting for 70.41% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Allgood residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Allgood include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Danish.

Allgood also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 35.89%.

The most common language spoken in Allgood is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English 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 Allgood, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 47.9% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 4.6% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.5% of America's neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry.

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 Allgood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.8% 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, 34.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 12.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (19.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Allgood, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report German roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.6%). In addition, 11.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (33.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (11.6%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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