Langston is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 267 people and just one neighborhood, Langston is the 367th largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Langston is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.56% of the Langston workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Langston is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Langston who work in office and administrative support (16.13%), sales jobs (12.90%), and healthcare (7.53%).
Another notable thing is that Langston is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Langston’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
Overall, Langston’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Langston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Langston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Langston, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.28 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Langston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Langston who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.98% of the adults in Langston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Langston in 2022 was $40,202, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,808 for a family of four. However, Langston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Langston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Langston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Langston include English, German, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Langston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Langston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 53.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.7% 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.
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 Langston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.6% 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, 53.3% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.2%), and 5.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.9%).
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 Langston, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report German roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.