Wellington is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,560 people and just one neighborhood, Wellington is the 131st largest community in Alabama.
Wellington is a blue-collar town, with 35.85% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wellington is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellington who work in healthcare (11.81%), management occupations (10.73%), and teaching (10.49%).
Also of interest is that Wellington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Wellington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wellington a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Wellington is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wellington, the average commute to work is 31.07 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Wellington 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.
In terms of college education, Wellington is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.80% of adults 25 and older in Wellington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wellington in 2022 was $28,907, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,628 for a family of four. However, Wellington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wellington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wellington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wellington include English, Irish, French, Scandinavian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Wellington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.6%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Wellington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.4% 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 35.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.4%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
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 Wellington, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report French roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.1%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.