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Biscoe - Star, NC

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Overview


Biscoe - Star is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,427 people and just one neighborhood, Biscoe - Star is the 187th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Biscoe - Star is a blue-collar town, with 51.36% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Biscoe - Star is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Biscoe - Star who work in food service (12.03%), sales jobs (8.24%), and management occupations (4.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Biscoe - Star 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.

Demographics

The citizens of Biscoe - Star are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.32% of adults in Biscoe - Star have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Biscoe - Star in 2022 was $20,689, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,756 for a family of four. However, Biscoe - Star contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Biscoe - Star is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Biscoe - Star home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Biscoe - Star residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Biscoe - Star also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.83% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Biscoe - Star include English, German, Dutch, Irish, and Scottish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Biscoe - Star's cultural character, accounting for 15.23% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Biscoe - Star is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

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 51.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.1% of American neighborhoods.

People

Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.

The Neighbors

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 Biscoe - Star are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.4% 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, 51.4% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.5%), and 4.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 61.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (38.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Biscoe - Star, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report German roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (3.7%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 15.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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