Autaugaville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 798 people and just one neighborhood, Autaugaville is the 316th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Autaugaville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.73% of Autaugaville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Autaugaville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Autaugaville who work in food service (9.57%), management occupations (6.12%), and healthcare (5.32%).
The overall crime rate in Autaugaville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Autaugaville 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. Autaugaville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Autaugaville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Autaugaville may be for you.
One downside of living in Autaugaville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Autaugaville, the average commute to work is 30.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Autaugaville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Autaugaville in 2022 was $26,259, 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 $105,036 for a family of four. However, Autaugaville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Autaugaville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Autaugaville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Autaugaville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Autaugaville include English, German, Irish, European, and Jamaican.
The most common language spoken in Autaugaville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Autaugaville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 61.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.9% of American neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry.
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 Autaugaville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.5% 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, 61.6% 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 18.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (11.1%), and 8.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).
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 Autaugaville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (5.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Eastern European roots (1.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.5%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (13.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (86.2%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.