Woodville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 751 people and just one neighborhood, Woodville is the 324th largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Woodville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.97% of the Woodville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Woodville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodville who work in office and administrative support (15.86%), food service (6.91%), and teaching (5.63%).
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!) Woodville 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. Woodville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Woodville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Woodville may be for you.
Being a small town, Woodville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Woodville rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.55% of adults 25 and older in Woodville 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 Woodville in 2022 was $24,966, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,864 for a family of four. However, Woodville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Woodville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Woodville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Woodville include Scots-Irish, Irish, English, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Woodville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 1.1% have Austrian ancestry.
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 Woodville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.1% 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, 39.4% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 9.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Woodville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some South American ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.