Vandiver - Sterrett is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,666 people and just one neighborhood, Vandiver - Sterrett is the 187th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Vandiver - Sterrett, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.32% of Vandiver - Sterrett’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Vandiver - Sterrett is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vandiver - Sterrett who work in office and administrative support (13.87%), management occupations (11.40%), and sales jobs (10.64%).
Also of interest is that Vandiver - Sterrett has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Vandiver - Sterrett is worth considering.
One downside of living in Vandiver - Sterrett is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Vandiver - Sterrett, the average commute to work is 33.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Vandiver - Sterrett doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Vandiver - Sterrett are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.83% of adults in Vandiver - Sterrett having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Vandiver - Sterrett in 2022 was $34,820, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,280 for a family of four. However, Vandiver - Sterrett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Vandiver - Sterrett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vandiver - Sterrett residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Vandiver - Sterrett include English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Vandiver - Sterrett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.8% 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 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of 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.
If you are planning to retire in Alabama, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Alabama, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.8% of neighborhoods in AL. If a Alabama retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.0% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Vandiver - Sterrett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.3% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Vandiver - Sterrett, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Scottish roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.