Citronelle is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,903 people and just one neighborhood, Citronelle is the 146th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Citronelle, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.05% of Citronelle’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Citronelle is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Citronelle who work in office and administrative support (12.43%), management occupations (8.24%), and teaching (6.76%).
The city 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, Citronelle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Citronelle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Citronelle, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.94 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Citronelle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Citronelle, just 12.06% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Citronelle in 2022 was $26,243, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,972 for a family of four. However, Citronelle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Citronelle is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Citronelle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Citronelle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Citronelle include English, French, Irish, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Citronelle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% 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 Citronelle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.9% 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 61.7% 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, 37.7% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Citronelle, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report French roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (43.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (89.6%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.