Gordon is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 297 people and just one neighborhood, Gordon is the 363rd largest community in Alabama.
When you are in Gordon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.67% of Gordon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gordon is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gordon who work in office and administrative support (23.97%), sales jobs (14.05%), and maintenance occupations (7.44%).
Residents will find that the town 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, Gordon is worth considering.
One downside of living in Gordon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.98 minutes every day commuting to work.
Gordon 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.
The population of Gordon has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.58% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Gordon in 2022 was $26,431, 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 $105,724 for a family of four.
Gordon is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gordon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gordon residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Gordon include English, Irish, German, Other Subsaharan African, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Gordon is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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 Gordon, 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 97.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.3% 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.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.3% of America.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.1% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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 Gordon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% of U.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, 29.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.6%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Gordon, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report German roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.1%).
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 (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.3%) 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 (17.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.