Addison is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 669 people and just one neighborhood, Addison is the 334th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Addison, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.47% of Addison’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Addison is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Addison who work in sales jobs (11.23%), healthcare (10.68%), and healthcare suport services (8.49%).
A relatively large number of people in Addison telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.95% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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!) Addison 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. Addison has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Addison than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Addison may be for you.
One downside of living in Addison, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.92 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Addison doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Addison, just 7.33% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Addison in 2022 was $26,614, 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 $106,456 for a family of four. However, Addison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Addison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Addison residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Addison include English, German, Irish, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Addison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 52.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.1% 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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 2.3% have Welsh ancestry.
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 Addison are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 52.0% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% 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 Addison, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.3%), along with some Ukrainian ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (30.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.