Perdido is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 730 people and just one neighborhood, Perdido is the 328th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns, Perdido isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Perdido are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Perdido is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Perdido who work in sales jobs (24.32%), food service (18.92%), and office and administrative support (7.43%).
A relatively large number of people in Perdido telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.51% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
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, Perdido has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Perdido a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Perdido is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Perdido has a very low overall level of education: only 7.97% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Perdido in 2022 was $31,886, 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 $127,544 for a family of four. However, Perdido contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Perdido is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Perdido home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Perdido residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Perdido include English, Irish, German, Welsh, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Perdido is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Persian.
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.
Our research reveals that 89.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 3.0% have Scots-Irish 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 Perdido are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.7% of America'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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.4%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).
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 Perdido, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (89.5%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.