 About 9.2% of families and 11.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.3% of those under age 18 and 14.1% of those age 65 or over.Locust Fork straddles Alabama State Route 79, which is a north-south highway running from Birmingham to the south and Scottsboro to the northeast.Blount County Road 13 runs northwestward to connect to Alabama Highway 160 between the communities of Hayden and Nectar.