Luverne is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,685 people and just one neighborhood, Luverne is the 180th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some cities, Luverne isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Luverne are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Luverne is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Luverne who work in teaching (10.57%), sales jobs (9.77%), and architecture and engineering (6.78%).
Also of interest is that Luverne has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The citizens of Luverne are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.70% of adults in Luverne having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Luverne in 2022 was $27,687, 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 $110,748 for a family of four. However, Luverne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Luverne is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Luverne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Luverne residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Luverne include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Luverne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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 Luverne, 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 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.
Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% 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 Luverne are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.5% 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, 33.3% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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 Luverne, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report Asian roots (3.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.4%) 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 (17.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.