Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center median real estate price is $201,320, which is more expensive than 46.9% of the neighborhoods in Alabama and 22.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center is currently $1,018, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.1% of Alabama neighborhoods.
Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fort Payne, Alabama.
Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center has a 12.3% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 70.4% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
In the Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.4% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
One of the unique characteristics of the Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. The Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (55.2%) than found in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
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 Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood in Fort Payne are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% 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 Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood, 36.7% 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 35.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.7%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.2%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood in Fort Payne, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.6%), among others. In addition, 13.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Fisher Crossroads / Pumpkin Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.7%) 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 (23.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.