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Lester, AL

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Overview


Lester is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 115 people and just one neighborhood, Lester is the 399th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Lester is a blue-collar town, with 53.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lester is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lester who work in food service (21.67%), sales jobs (8.33%), and teaching (6.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Lester’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, Lester has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lester a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Lester, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.36 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Lester does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lester is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.75% of adults 25 and older in Lester have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lester in 2022 was $22,545, 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 $90,180 for a family of four. However, Lester contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lester home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lester residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lester include Irish, Romanian, German, English, and Lithuanian.

The most common language spoken in Lester is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 92.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Alabama. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Lester are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 40.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% 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, 37.4% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 12.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 neighborhood in Lester, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report Welsh roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (32.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (92.7%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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