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Kimberly - Trafford is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,240 people and just one neighborhood, Kimberly - Trafford is the 147th largest community in Alabama.
Kimberly - Trafford real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Kimberly - Trafford house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
Kimberly - Trafford is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.45% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Kimberly - Trafford is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kimberly - Trafford who work in healthcare (19.26%), sales jobs (13.97%), and office and administrative support (11.55%).
Also of interest is that Kimberly - Trafford has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Kimberly - Trafford is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Kimberly - Trafford a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Kimberly - Trafford has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Kimberly - Trafford’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
One downside of living in Kimberly - Trafford, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.53 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Kimberly - Trafford doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Kimberly - Trafford who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.65% of adults in Kimberly - Trafford have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Kimberly - Trafford in 2022 was $35,452, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,808 for a family of four. However, Kimberly - Trafford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Kimberly - Trafford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kimberly - Trafford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kimberly - Trafford include Irish, English, German, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Kimberly - Trafford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
People
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Alabama. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 96.3% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Alabama. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.
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 Kimberly - Trafford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.0% 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, 50.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.5%), and 11.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Kimberly - Trafford, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (23.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (8.7%) . 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.
