Cedar Bluff is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,899 people and just one neighborhood, Cedar Bluff is the 240th largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cedar Bluff is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.03% of the Cedar Bluff workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cedar Bluff is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Bluff who work in teaching (11.88%), sales jobs (10.19%), and maintenance occupations (7.81%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cedar Bluff has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cedar Bluff a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Cedar Bluff does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Cedar Bluff is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.89% of adults 25 and older in Cedar Bluff have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cedar Bluff in 2022 was $27,751, 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 $111,004 for a family of four. However, Cedar Bluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cedar Bluff is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cedar Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cedar Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Bluff include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Austrian.
The most common language spoken in Cedar Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).
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.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 37.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In addition, one of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cedar Bluff are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.9% 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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.1%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% 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 Cedar Bluff, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.