Lapine is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,959 people and just one neighborhood, Lapine is the 224th largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lapine is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.77% of the Lapine workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lapine is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lapine who work in office and administrative support (17.15%), management occupations (8.52%), and teaching (6.20%).
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!) Lapine 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. Lapine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lapine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lapine may be for you.
In Lapine, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Lapine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Lapine with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.73% of adults in Lapine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lapine in 2022 was $27,981, 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 $111,924 for a family of four. However, Lapine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lapine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lapine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lapine include English, Irish, French, German, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Lapine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 46.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, 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 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% of America.
has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Lapine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% 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, 33.5% 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 12.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% 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 Lapine, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report French roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (41.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (18.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.