Cottonwood is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,057 people and just one neighborhood, Cottonwood is the 291st largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cottonwood is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cottonwood is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottonwood who work in sales jobs (15.52%), office and administrative support (13.08%), and healthcare (10.20%).
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, Cottonwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cottonwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Cottonwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Cottonwood is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.35% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cottonwood in 2022 was $20,414, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,656 for a family of four. However, Cottonwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cottonwood also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cottonwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottonwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottonwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cottonwood include Irish, German, English, Norwegian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Cottonwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.8% 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.
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 Cottonwood are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% 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, 35.1% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.3%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.2%).
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 Cottonwood, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.4%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (46.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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.