Camp Hill is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 965 people and just one neighborhood, Camp Hill is the 296th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Camp Hill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Camp Hill is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Camp Hill who work in sales jobs (11.90%), office and administrative support (11.52%), and management occupations (10.41%).
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, Camp Hill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Camp Hill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Camp Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Camp Hill, just 11.14% 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 Camp Hill in 2022 was $17,436, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,744 for a family of four. Camp Hill also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.15% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Camp Hill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Camp Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Camp Hill residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Camp Hill include English, Irish, German, Swedish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Camp Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 29.5% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Camp Hill are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.1% 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, 40.4% 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 20.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.0%), and 19.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% 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 Camp Hill, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (3.0%). There are also a number of people of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.8%), and residents who report English roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.0%).
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 (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.