Black Creek is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 686 people and just one neighborhood, Black Creek is the 447th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Black Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.75% of the Black Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Black Creek is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Black Creek who work in office and administrative support (14.96%), business and financial occupations (9.45%), and sales jobs (7.09%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Black Creek has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Black Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Black Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Black Creek may be for you.
One downside of living in Black Creek, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.71 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Black Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Black Creek has a very low overall level of education: only 8.62% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Black Creek in 2022 was $26,343, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,372 for a family of four. However, Black Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Black Creek is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Black Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Black Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Black Creek include English, Irish, Italian, Scottish, and Jamaican.
The most common language spoken in Black Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Black Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Black Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.2% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 16.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).
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 Black Creek, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.7%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.