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Gordo is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,578 people and just one neighborhood, Gordo is the 253rd largest community in Alabama.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Gordo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gordo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gordo is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gordo who work in food service (12.59%), healthcare suport services (10.14%), and healthcare (7.68%).
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!) Gordo 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. Gordo has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gordo than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gordo may be for you.
One downside of living in Gordo, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.45 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Gordo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The education level of Gordo citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.32% of adults 25 and older in Gordo have a college degree.
The per capita income in Gordo in 2022 was $27,443, 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 $109,772 for a family of four. However, Gordo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gordo is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gordo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gordo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gordo include English, Irish, Italian, Scots-Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Gordo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 93.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.
People
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.1% of the neighborhoods in AL. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gordo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.4% 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, 34.8% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
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 Gordo, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (93.4%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
