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New Brockton, AL

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Overview


New Brockton is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,478 people and just one neighborhood, New Brockton is the 262nd largest community in Alabama. Much of the housing stock in New Brockton was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local New Brockton economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in New Brockton, where the median household income is $54,643.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Brockton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Brockton is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Brockton who work in food service (12.50%), community and social services (12.31%), and management occupations (11.54%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, New Brockton is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.32% of adults 25 and older in New Brockton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Brockton in 2018 was $29,607, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,428 for a family of four. However, New Brockton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

New Brockton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Brockton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Brockton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Brockton include Irish, Scots-Irish, French, English, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in New Brockton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.2%) living in the neighborhood.

Occupations

With 1.5% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 95.3% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 New Brockton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.1% 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, 38.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 New Brockton, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (44.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.3%) 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 (5.2%) . 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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