Fruithurst is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 248 people and just one neighborhood, Fruithurst is the 371st largest community in Alabama.
Fruithurst is a blue-collar town, with 48.62% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fruithurst is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fruithurst who work in management occupations (11.93%), teaching (10.09%), and maintenance occupations (6.42%).
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, Fruithurst has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fruithurst a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Fruithurst is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fruithurst, the average commute to work is 34.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Fruithurst 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 percentage of adults in Fruithurst with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.79% of adults in Fruithurst have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fruithurst in 2022 was $22,924, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,696 for a family of four. However, Fruithurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fruithurst home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fruithurst residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fruithurst include Irish, English, German, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in Fruithurst is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 21.1% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish 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 Fruithurst are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.3% of America'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 neighborhood, 39.0% 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 35.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 7.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Fruithurst, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (23.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report German roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.9%), along with some Dutch 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.