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Woodville, AL

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Overview


Woodville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 748 people and just one neighborhood, Woodville is the 324th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Woodville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.97% of the Woodville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Woodville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodville who work in office and administrative support (15.86%), food service (6.91%), and teaching (5.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Woodville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Woodville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Woodville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Woodville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.55% of adults in Woodville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Woodville in 2022 was $24,966, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,864 for a family of four. However, Woodville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Woodville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Woodville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Woodville include Scots-Irish, Irish, English, German, and French.

The most common language spoken in Woodville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Woodville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 1.1% have Austrian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Woodville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.1% 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, 39.4% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 9.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Woodville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some South American ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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