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Chatom, AL

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Overview


Chatom is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,077 people and just one neighborhood, Chatom is the 288th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Chatom isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chatom are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chatom is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chatom who work in management occupations (17.92%), legal occupations (15.42%), and office and administrative support (10.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Chatom has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Chatom has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Chatom than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Chatom may be for you.

One of the benefits of Chatom is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.60 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Chatom 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.

Demographics

The population of Chatom overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Chatom, 24.92% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Chatom in 2022 was $38,061, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,244 for a family of four. However, Chatom contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chatom also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.65% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Chatom is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Chatom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chatom residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Chatom include English, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Chatom is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.6%, which is higher than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.3%) living in the neighborhood.

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 Chatom are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.8% 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, 39.0% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Chatom, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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.


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