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Citronelle is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,910 people and just one neighborhood, Citronelle is the 146th largest community in Alabama.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Citronelle is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.52% of the Citronelle workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Citronelle is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Citronelle who work in office and administrative support (12.98%), management occupations (8.37%), and food service (7.61%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Citronelle is worth considering.
One downside of living in Citronelle, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.08 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Citronelle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Citronelle is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Citronelle in 2022 was $24,992, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,968 for a family of four. However, Citronelle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Citronelle is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Citronelle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Citronelle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Citronelle include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Citronelle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 88.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Citronelle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.2% 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 66.8% 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, 39.1% 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 22.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Citronelle, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (43.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (88.4%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
