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Holly Pond, AL

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Overview


Holly Pond is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 853 people and just one neighborhood, Holly Pond is the 310th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Holly Pond is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Holly Pond is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Holly Pond who work in food service (14.38%), office and administrative support (12.46%), and teaching (7.03%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.77% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

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

In Holly Pond, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.36 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Holly Pond does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Holly Pond is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.74% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Holly Pond in 2022 was $21,714, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,856 for a family of four. However, Holly Pond contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Holly Pond is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.

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

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 Holly Pond are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.3% 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.3%), and 19.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Holly Pond, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.4%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (10.7%) . 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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