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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Jack, the average commute to work is 34.73 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Jack does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Jack with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
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.
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 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.
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, 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 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 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.
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 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.