Verbena is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,696 people and just one neighborhood, Verbena is the 184th largest community in Alabama. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Verbena, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Verbena, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Verbena’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Verbena does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $46,690.00.
Verbena is a blue-collar town, with 45.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Verbena is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Verbena who work in maintenance occupations (17.13%), office and administrative support (10.66%), and management occupations (8.98%).
The town 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, Verbena has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Verbena a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Verbena, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.36 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Verbena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Verbena has a very low overall level of education: only 8.16% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Verbena in 2022 was $28,516, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,064 for a family of four. However, Verbena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Verbena is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Verbena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Verbena residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Verbena include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Verbena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.3% 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, 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 90.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 45.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.1%) than in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Verbena are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.5% of America'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, 45.9% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.4%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
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 Verbena, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.7%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (41.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (23.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.