Silverhill is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,923 people and just one neighborhood, Silverhill is the 319th largest community in Alabama. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Silverhill, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Silverhill, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Silverhill’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Silverhill does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $58,510.00.
Silverhill real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Silverhill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Silverhill isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Silverhill are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Silverhill is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Silverhill who work in office and administrative support (17.01%), sales jobs (15.65%), and teaching (12.93%).
Of important note, Silverhill is also a town of artists. Silverhill has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Silverhill’s character.
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, Silverhill is worth considering.
Silverhill is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Silverhill citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.78% of adults in Silverhill have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Silverhill in 2022 was $43,859, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $175,436 for a family of four. However, Silverhill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Silverhill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Silverhill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Silverhill residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Silverhill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.36% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Silverhill include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Silverhill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Silverhill are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.6% 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, 37.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.1%).
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 Silverhill, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report English roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (8.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.