Overview
Maplesville is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 651 people and just one neighborhood, Maplesville is the 337th largest community in Alabama.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Maplesville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Maplesville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maplesville who work in office and administrative support (17.05%), law enforcement and fire fighting (12.43%), and art, media, and design (9.83%).
Of important note, Maplesville is also a town of artists. Maplesville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Maplesville鈥檚 character.
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Maplesville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Maplesville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Maplesville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Maplesville may be for you.
Maplesville 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.
Demographics
The population of Maplesville has a very low overall level of education: only 7.47% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Maplesville in 2022 was $24,561, 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 $98,244 for a family of four. However, Maplesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Maplesville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Maplesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maplesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maplesville include Irish, English, Dutch, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Maplesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 蘑菇视频's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than 蘑菇视频 found in 99.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Car Ownership
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. 蘑菇视频's Analysis reveals that 41.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 蘑菇视频's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.4% 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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Maplesville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.2% 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, 40.0% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.6%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Maplesville, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report German roots (1.6%).
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (41.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (95.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
