Mount Hope is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,866 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Hope is the 241st largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Mount Hope, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.44% of Mount Hope’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Hope is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Hope who work in office and administrative support (16.34%), management occupations (10.62%), and teaching (5.56%).
Mount Hope’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Mount Hope has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Hope a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Mount Hope, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.46 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Mount Hope does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Mount Hope with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.79% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Hope in 2022 was $33,751, 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 $135,004 for a family of four. However, Mount Hope contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Hope is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Hope home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Hope residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Hope include English, Irish, German, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mount Hope is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Mount Hope, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.0% 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, 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 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.7% 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 Mount Hope are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.4% 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, 44.4% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 6.5% 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 99.1% 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 Mount Hope, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (6.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.4%) 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 (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.