Town Center / Lathamville median real estate price is $116,621, which is less expensive than 82.7% of Alabama neighborhoods and 93.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Town Center / Lathamville is currently $1,548, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 44.9% of Alabama neighborhoods.
Town Center / Lathamville is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Crossville, Alabama.
Town Center / Lathamville real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Town Center / Lathamville has a 10.3% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 62.7% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Town Center / Lathamville 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 55.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.6% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 47.8% 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 the Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 26.7% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 63.9% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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 Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood in Crossville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 63.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.6% 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 Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood, 55.8% 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 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (11.4%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.9%).
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 Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood in Crossville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report English roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (1.9%). In addition, 16.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Town Center / Lathamville neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.4%) 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 (26.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.