Geraldine is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 905 people and just one neighborhood, Geraldine is the 306th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Geraldine is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Geraldine is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Geraldine who work in architecture and engineering (14.56%), business and financial occupations (13.08%), and sales jobs (12.66%).
Being a small town, Geraldine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Geraldine is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.74% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Geraldine in 2022 was $31,096, 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 $124,384 for a family of four. However, Geraldine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Geraldine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Geraldine residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Geraldine include English, Irish, German, Eastern European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Geraldine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.
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The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.4% 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.
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 Geraldine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% 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, 34.2% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.6%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.8%).
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 Geraldine, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (32.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (12.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.