Guin is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,147 people and just one neighborhood, Guin is the 211th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some cities, Guin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Guin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Guin is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Guin who work in sales jobs (17.24%), healthcare (12.72%), and office and administrative support (9.04%).
The city 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, Guin has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Guin a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In terms of college education, Guin is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.28% of adults 25 and older in Guin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Guin in 2022 was $26,571, 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 $106,284 for a family of four. However, Guin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Guin is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Guin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Guin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Guin include Irish, English, European, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Guin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
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.
Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Guin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.1% 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, 32.3% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.9%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.6%).
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 Guin, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.