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Millport - Kennedy, AL

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Overview


Millport - Kennedy is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,934 people and just one neighborhood, Millport - Kennedy is the 145th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Millport - Kennedy, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.28% of Millport - Kennedy’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Millport - Kennedy is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millport - Kennedy who work in office and administrative support (10.86%), management occupations (8.81%), and teaching (8.29%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Millport - Kennedy is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Millport - Kennedy a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Millport - Kennedy has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Millport - Kennedy’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small town, Millport - Kennedy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Millport - Kennedy, just 8.56% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Millport - Kennedy in 2022 was $28,556, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,224 for a family of four. However, Millport - Kennedy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Millport - Kennedy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Millport - Kennedy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millport - Kennedy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Millport - Kennedy include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Millport - Kennedy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Millport - Kennedy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Alabama. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 96.9% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Alabama. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

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 97.0% 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.

The Neighbors

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 Millport - Kennedy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 64.1% of America'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, 35.1% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Millport - Kennedy, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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