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Baileyton, AL

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Overview


Baileyton is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 683 people and just one neighborhood, Baileyton is the 336th largest community in Alabama. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Baileyton, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Baileyton, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Baileyton’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Baileyton does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $61,110.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Baileyton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Baileyton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Baileyton is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Baileyton who work in office and administrative support (39.62%), healthcare (5.72%), and sales jobs (3.39%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Baileyton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.13 minutes every day commuting to work.

Baileyton 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.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Baileyton rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.63% of adults 25 and older in Baileyton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Baileyton in 2022 was $29,531, 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 $118,124 for a family of four. However, Baileyton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Baileyton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Baileyton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Baileyton include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Baileyton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 Baileyton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.3% 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, 40.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 16.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 95.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Baileyton, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.

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 (30.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (8.4%) . 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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