Remlap - Locust Fork is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,932 people and just one neighborhood, Remlap - Locust Fork is the 109th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns, Remlap - Locust Fork isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Remlap - Locust Fork are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Remlap - Locust Fork is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Remlap - Locust Fork who work in office and administrative support (17.74%), sales jobs (10.18%), and personal care services (8.29%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Remlap - Locust Fork is worth considering.
One downside of living in Remlap - Locust Fork, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.93 minutes every day commuting to work.
Remlap - Locust Fork 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 Remlap - Locust Fork have a very low rate of college education: just 8.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Remlap - Locust Fork in 2022 was $28,751, 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 $115,004 for a family of four. However, Remlap - Locust Fork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Remlap - Locust Fork is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Remlap - Locust Fork home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Remlap - Locust Fork residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Remlap - Locust Fork also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.31% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Remlap - Locust Fork include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Bulgarian.
The most common language spoken in Remlap - Locust Fork is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.1% 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 Remlap - Locust Fork are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.4% 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, 32.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.4%), and 18.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.1%).
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 Remlap - Locust Fork, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (90.7%) 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 (7.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.