Highland Home is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,834 people and just one neighborhood, Highland Home is the 239th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns, Highland Home isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Highland Home are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Highland Home is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Highland Home who work in office and administrative support (14.52%), healthcare (10.70%), and sales jobs (9.43%).
Also of interest is that Highland Home has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Highland Home is worth considering.
In Highland Home, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.42 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Highland Home doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Highland Home with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.45% of adults in Highland Home have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Highland Home in 2022 was $50,673, which is wealthy relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $202,692 for a family of four. However, Highland Home contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Highland Home is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Highland Home home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Highland Home residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Highland Home include English, Irish, African, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in Highland Home is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Italian.
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 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.4% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.7% 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 Highland Home are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.1% 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 58.3% 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, 33.2% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Highland Home, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.