Lexington is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 735 people and just one neighborhood, Lexington is the 329th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns, Lexington isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lexington are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lexington is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lexington who work in sales jobs (19.17%), office and administrative support (10.91%), and management occupations (8.55%).
One downside of living in Lexington is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lexington, the average commute to work is 34.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Lexington 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.
The rate of college-level education in Lexington is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.58% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lexington in 2022 was $26,818, 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 $107,272 for a family of four. However, Lexington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lexington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lexington residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lexington include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Lexington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.3%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
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 Lexington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% of U.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, 38.7% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 16.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.2%).
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 Lexington, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (41.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (17.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.