Overview
Thorsby is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,148 people and just one neighborhood, Thorsby is the 219th largest community in Alabama.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Thorsby is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thorsby is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thorsby who work in healthcare (10.58%), sales jobs (10.48%), and management occupations (9.07%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.21% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
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, Thorsby has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Thorsby a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Thorsby is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Thorsby, the average commute to work is 34.87 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Thorsby does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Thorsby rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.13% of adults 25 and older in Thorsby have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Thorsby in 2022 was $28,404, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,616 for a family of four. However, Thorsby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thorsby is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Thorsby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thorsby residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Thorsby include English, Irish, European, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Thorsby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Thorsby, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Thorsby are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.5% 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, 32.8% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Thorsby, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
