Newville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 550 people and just one neighborhood, Newville is the 343rd largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns, Newville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Newville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Newville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Newville who work in office and administrative support (13.70%), food service (10.27%), and teaching (8.90%).
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, Newville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Newville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Newville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Newville rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.06% of adults 25 and older in Newville 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 Newville in 2022 was $21,950, 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 $87,800 for a family of four. However, Newville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Newville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Newville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Newville include English, German, Irish, European, and Ukrainian.
The most common language spoken in Newville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and African languages.
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 Newville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.0% of America.
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 Newville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% of U.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, 35.4% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.1%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
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 Newville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Scottish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (43.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (17.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.