Sumiton is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,387 people and just one neighborhood, Sumiton is the 192nd largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some cities, Sumiton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sumiton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sumiton is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sumiton who work in office and administrative support (14.22%), sales jobs (13.43%), and maintenance occupations (7.62%).
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Sumiton 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. Sumiton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sumiton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sumiton may be for you.
Being a small city, Sumiton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Sumiton rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.28% of adults 25 and older in Sumiton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Sumiton in 2022 was $31,265, 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 $125,060 for a family of four. However, Sumiton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sumiton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sumiton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sumiton include Irish, English, French, German, and Greek.
The most common language spoken in Sumiton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 43.8% 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.
Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Sumiton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 29.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.0%), and 21.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).
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 Sumiton, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scottish 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.