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Fruithurst, AL

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Overview


Fruithurst is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 243 people and just one neighborhood, Fruithurst is the 371st largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Fruithurst, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.44% of Fruithurst’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fruithurst is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fruithurst who work in office and administrative support (8.89%), sales jobs (7.78%), and maintenance occupations (7.78%).

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

One downside of living in Fruithurst is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fruithurst, the average commute to work is 32.11 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Fruithurst rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.25% of adults 25 and older in Fruithurst 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 Fruithurst in 2022 was $22,576, 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 $90,304 for a family of four. However, Fruithurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fruithurst home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fruithurst residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fruithurst include Irish, English, German, European, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Fruithurst is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.6% 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.

In addition, 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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Fruithurst are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.4% 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, 49.7% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.7%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Fruithurst, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (23.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (29.5% 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 (13.9%) . 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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