Ansonville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 444 people and just one neighborhood, Ansonville is the 497th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Ansonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 58.45% of Ansonville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ansonville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ansonville who work in sales jobs (12.32%), food service (7.16%), and healthcare (4.30%).
The town 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, Ansonville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ansonville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Ansonville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Ansonville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.54% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ansonville in 2022 was $22,786, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,144 for a family of four.
Ansonville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ansonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ansonville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Ansonville include English, Italian, Irish, Dutch, and German.
The most common language spoken in Ansonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 47.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.3% of American neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Ansonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 47.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.3%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Ansonville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.3%).
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.