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La Fayette, AL

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Overview


La Fayette is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,625 people and just one neighborhood, La Fayette is the 181st largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in La Fayette, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.26% of La Fayette’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, La Fayette is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Fayette who work in healthcare (14.35%), food service (9.22%), and office and administrative support (6.07%).

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

As is often the case in a small city, La Fayette doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In La Fayette, just 11.26% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in La Fayette in 2022 was $22,796, 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 $91,184 for a family of four. However, La Fayette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in La Fayette is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Greek.

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.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 51.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

Of particular note, 3.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Also, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in La Fayette is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in AL, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.4% of the neighborhoods in Alabama. If you are considering retiring to Alabama, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of American neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.5% 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 La Fayette are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 44.7% 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 35.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.4%), and 5.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 La Fayette, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.1%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (89.0%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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