Fort Deposit is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,153 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Deposit is the 278th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Fort Deposit, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.39% of Fort Deposit’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fort Deposit is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Deposit who work in sales jobs (10.65%), office and administrative support (8.70%), and healthcare (6.52%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fort Deposit has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fort Deposit has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fort Deposit than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fort Deposit may be for you.
One downside of living in Fort Deposit is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fort Deposit, the average commute to work is 33.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Fort Deposit doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Fort Deposit ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.52% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fort Deposit in 2022 was $15,694, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,776 for a family of four. Fort Deposit also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Fort Deposit is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Deposit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Deposit residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Deposit include English, German, Israeli, Palestinian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Fort Deposit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Fort Deposit, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Also of note, 67.7% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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 95.9% 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 Fort Deposit are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 67.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.2% 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, 38.1% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 13.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Fort Deposit, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (45.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (16.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.