ALABAMA: Towns Where People Live On $300 Weekly - How Poor Are They?

scrap. I bet there are some automotive treasures in there. What do you think? Check it out. band there truck looks great anyway carry on well I'm entering the city of Roanoke it's named after Roanoke in Virginia just so you know go into the center look at this church it's a beauty uh really interesting center yeah

they

have a great theater here to the right is really nice, there are some empty buildings here, but wow, there's a lot of character here, turn left here, hmm, well there's some decay that sure is still very interesting. I'm going to go through the center from a different angle, show you what it looks like and tell you the numbers of the city, seeing some beautiful houses here.

Wow, there's another one right there. Yes, my goodness, there are some in the other direction. I'll show them to you in a second. First I'll go back to the city center and tell you the estimated population for 2022: 52.70. The peak population was in 2000, not 1980. 65 63, so, yes, 6,500

people

, in 20 some years the city has lost more than 1,200 or about 1,200

people

, which is a pretty significant income per capita . There are 21,273 here. That's $409 a week. The median home value is 114,500. Those houses I just showed you have to be worth more than that, and I'm really interested in this downtown, although there are definitely some.

Decline, this great theater here seems to have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 20.6, so it's a little bit up. The average age is 44. So it's a little bit of an older city. Ella Smith was born here and I grew up here. She is the creator of the Ella Smith dolls, ten percent of our dolls were made as African Americans, she was the first doll maker to do that, as far as I understand, and if you can get some of her dolls, there was some money now . Anyway, I'm going to look around this city. I did a preliminary tour.

There are some interesting things here, even here on the left. I don't know what's going on here. Seems like a big what is it? What is happening there? back, take another look at that, I see a big kid, I see the hamburger thing, but there's no big kid here, uh, I don't know what this is, the White Elephant Center store, an old gas station that looks amazing, well, uh, we're in Alabama, someone moved Roll Tide there. I have a building here that looks like it has been abandoned, I'm not sure what that was, look what else is here, well despite the low income, make no mistake there are some beautiful houses here, look at this one, I mean, it's A masterpiece, yes, it's beautiful, that one.

It's also very pretty, it needs a little work, but yeah, that's beautiful. Well, I'm a couple blocks from downtown and I'm not sure what this is. Hmm, yeah, look at this from a different direction. You can hear the train coming. It had something to do with the train again. I'm about two blocks from downtown, let's see what's going on here, uh, well, we have a couch, a train, someone needs a couch, I've got a couple of buildings here, nature is reclaiming, it's like a little shack could even having been a latrine. Maybe, uh, there's the center there.

This is kind of a secondary road that goes out from there. See what's here right away. That's a beauty. We have some beautiful old houses here. I do not know what is happening. There, wow, it looks kind of burnt, look at that bear in the tree, uh, uh, there's something up here that's going to show you that it looks like maybe

they

're renovating it. Look, that was a great beauty at one time, uh, unfortunately it is. in terrible condition, wow, that was a house back in the day, although how cool is it that we have an ice skating rink here?

Pretty nice day, it's 62 degrees right now as I give you this nice view of Main Street Roanoke Alabama. I'm here, on the other side of the center from

where

I was. Honestly, this is really a tale of two cities because there are some beautiful houses here and then there are some, you know, they need a little work, the architecture is there. that's for sure the potential is amazing it would be amazing to see some of these houses um Reef renovated that would be amazing okay so that's the end of this video next we head to Georgia the next videos will be from there, so uh. be looking for those