Jack is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,881 people and just one neighborhood, Jack is the 238th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Jack, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.44% of Jack’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jack is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Jack who work in management occupations (14.20%), sales jobs (11.68%), and office and administrative support (9.55%).
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, Jack has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jack a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Jack, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.73 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Jack doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Jack are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.63% of adults in Jack have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Jack in 2022 was $30,468, 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 $121,872 for a family of four. However, Jack contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jack is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jack home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jack residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jack include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Jack is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Jack, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 89.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.6%, which is higher than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Jack are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% of U.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, 36.7% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).
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 Jack, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Scottish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.4%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.