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Fort Deposit, AL

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Overview


Fort Deposit is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,153 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Deposit is the 278th largest community in Alabama.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Fort Deposit, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.39% of Fort Deposit’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fort Deposit is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Deposit who work in sales jobs (10.65%), office and administrative support (8.70%), and healthcare (6.52%).

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!) Fort Deposit 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. Fort Deposit has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fort Deposit than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fort Deposit may be for you.

One downside of living in Fort Deposit is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fort Deposit, the average commute to work is 33.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Fort Deposit doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

Fort Deposit ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.52% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Fort Deposit in 2022 was $15,694, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,776 for a family of four. Fort Deposit also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Fort Deposit is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Deposit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Deposit residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Deposit include English, German, Israeli, Palestinian, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Fort Deposit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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 NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 67.7% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fort Deposit are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 67.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.2% 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, 38.1% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 13.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – 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 Fort Deposit, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (16.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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