Belews Creek is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,305 people and just one neighborhood, Belews Creek is the 245th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Belews Creek is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Belews Creek is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belews Creek who work in management occupations (11.65%), sales jobs (10.18%), and office and administrative support (8.17%).
Also of interest is that Belews Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Belews Creek has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Belews Creek a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Belews Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.40 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Belews Creek 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 population of Belews Creek overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Belews Creek, 21.34% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Belews Creek in 2022 was $34,143, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,572 for a family of four. However, Belews Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Belews Creek is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Belews Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Belews Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Belews Creek include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Belews Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 1.1% have Finnish ancestry.
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 Belews Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% of America'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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households.
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 Belews Creek, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report German roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (17.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.