Wellington is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,535 people and just one neighborhood, Wellington is the 131st largest community in Alabama.
Wellington is a blue-collar town, with 37.40% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wellington is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellington who work in healthcare (10.46%), management occupations (8.84%), and teaching (7.28%).
Also of interest is that Wellington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Wellington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wellington 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 town, Wellington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Wellington who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.06% of the adults in Wellington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wellington in 2022 was $29,939, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,756 for a family of four. However, Wellington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wellington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wellington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wellington include Irish, English, French, German, and European.
The most common language spoken in Wellington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wellington, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.6%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Wellington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% 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, 37.4% 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 33.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 11.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Wellington, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report French roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.9%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 (49.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.3%) 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 (12.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.