Mentone - Valley Head is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,274 people and just one neighborhood, Mentone - Valley Head is the 139th largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Mentone - Valley Head, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.59% of Mentone - Valley Head’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mentone - Valley Head is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mentone - Valley Head who work in sales jobs (11.18%), office and administrative support (7.21%), and healthcare (6.06%).
Mentone - Valley Head is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Mentone - Valley Head, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.
One downside of living in Mentone - Valley Head is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mentone - Valley Head, the average commute to work is 31.30 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Mentone - Valley Head is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Mentone - Valley Head is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.11% of adults 25 and older in Mentone - Valley Head have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mentone - Valley Head in 2022 was $26,224, 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 $104,896 for a family of four. However, Mentone - Valley Head contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mentone - Valley Head is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mentone - Valley Head home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mentone - Valley Head residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Mentone - Valley Head also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.59% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mentone - Valley Head include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Belizean.
The most common language spoken in Mentone - Valley Head is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
With 3.5% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 97.9% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 35.8% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.9% 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 90.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.4% of all 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 Mentone - Valley Head are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.6% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Mentone - Valley Head, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.