Collinsville is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,051 people and just one neighborhood, Collinsville is the 220th largest community in Alabama.
Collinsville is a blue-collar town, with 49.18% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Collinsville is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Collinsville who work in office and administrative support (8.47%), healthcare suport services (7.92%), and maintenance occupations (6.83%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Collinsville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Collinsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Collinsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Collinsville may be for you.
Being a small town, Collinsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Collinsville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.29% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Collinsville in 2022 was $16,437, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,748 for a family of four. However, Collinsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Collinsville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Collinsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Collinsville, accounting for 53.44% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Collinsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Collinsville include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Dutch.
In addition, Collinsville has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (29.52%).
The most common language spoken in Collinsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Collinsville, 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 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.1% 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.
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 Collinsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.9% 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, 39.9% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.1%).
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 Collinsville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report English roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 19.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.8%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.