Thorsby is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,124 people and just one neighborhood, Thorsby is the 219th largest community in Alabama. Thorsby has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Thorsby, where the median household income is $72,188.00.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Thorsby is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thorsby is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thorsby who work in healthcare (10.74%), office and administrative support (10.33%), and sales jobs (8.78%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.67% 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.
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, Thorsby has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Thorsby a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Thorsby is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Thorsby, the average commute to work is 36.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Thorsby 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 citizens of Thorsby are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.57% of adults in Thorsby have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Thorsby in 2022 was $26,348, 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 $105,392 for a family of four. However, Thorsby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thorsby is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Thorsby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thorsby residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Thorsby include English, German, European, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Thorsby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
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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 Thorsby are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.0% 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 53.1% of America'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, 33.4% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
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 Thorsby, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.