Fulton is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 216 people and just one neighborhood, Fulton is the 375th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns, Fulton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fulton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fulton is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fulton who work in sales jobs (33.52%), office and administrative support (21.98%), and maintenance occupations (13.19%).
Because of many things, Fulton is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Fulton a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Fulton has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Fulton’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
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!) Fulton 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. Fulton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fulton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fulton may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Fulton spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.75 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Fulton is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Fulton, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Fulton 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 citizens of Fulton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.14% of adults in Fulton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Fulton in 2022 was $22,480, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,920 for a family of four. However, Fulton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fulton is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fulton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fulton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fulton include German, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Fulton is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fulton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 97.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all American neighborhoods.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.2% 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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.5%) than found in 96.2% 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.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Fulton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.2% 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 neighborhood, 29.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.0%), and 19.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Fulton, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (8.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report English roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.0%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (97.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.