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Spruce Pine, AL

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Overview


Spruce Pine is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 215 people and just one neighborhood, Spruce Pine is the 377th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Spruce Pine, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 71.01% of Spruce Pine’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Spruce Pine is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spruce Pine who work in sales jobs (11.59%), healthcare (8.70%), and management occupations (8.70%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Spruce Pine is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Spruce Pine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spruce Pine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Spruce Pine doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Spruce Pine has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Spruce Pine in 2022 was $19,817, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,268 for a family of four. However, Spruce Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Spruce Pine is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Spruce Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spruce Pine residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Spruce Pine include Swiss, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Spruce Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 2.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of American neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Spruce Pine are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.9% 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, 42.0% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (19.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Spruce Pine, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (9.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report English roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 13.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

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 (11.6%) . 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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