Broadway is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,318 people and just one neighborhood, Broadway is the 378th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Broadway isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Broadway are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Broadway is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Broadway who work in sales jobs (17.55%), management occupations (14.96%), and office and administrative support (10.79%).
Also of interest is that Broadway has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Broadway 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. Broadway has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Broadway than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Broadway may be for you.
In terms of college education, Broadway is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.32% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Broadway in 2022 was $46,473, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $185,892 for a family of four. However, Broadway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Broadway is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Broadway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Broadway residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Broadway include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Broadway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
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 Broadway, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 4.2% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Broadway are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 38.2% 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 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 18.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Broadway, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (10.4%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.7%), 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 (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (16.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.