Pine Hill is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 712 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Hill is the 321st largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pine Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.86% of the Pine Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pine Hill is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Hill who work in sales jobs (9.22%), farm management occupations (9.22%), and office and administrative support (8.87%).
In addition, many people in Pine Hill have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Pine Hill has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
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, Pine Hill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pine Hill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Pine Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Pine Hill, just 9.91% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Pine Hill in 2022 was $24,632, 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 $98,528 for a family of four. However, Pine Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pine Hill also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.81% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Pine Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Hill residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Pine Hill include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and European.
The most common language spoken in Pine Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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 Pine Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 94.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.8% 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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.
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 Pine Hill are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.0% 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, 39.7% 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 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 18.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Pine Hill, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (4.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.8%), and residents who report German roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.3%).
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 (38.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (94.0%) 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.