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Geneva, AL

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Overview


Geneva is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,204 people and just one neighborhood, Geneva is the 138th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Geneva isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Geneva are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Geneva is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Geneva who work in sales jobs (17.35%), office and administrative support (12.86%), and management occupations (10.17%).

Also of interest is that Geneva has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Geneva spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.73 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small city, Geneva does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Geneva with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.94% of adults in Geneva have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Geneva in 2022 was $26,439, 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 $105,756 for a family of four. However, Geneva contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Geneva is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Geneva home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Geneva residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Geneva include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and British.

The most common language spoken in Geneva is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Geneva, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 94.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 63.4% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Geneva 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 65.6% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Korean (2.2%).

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 Geneva, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (63.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (94.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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