Cedar Grove is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,967 people and just one neighborhood, Cedar Grove is the 313th largest community in North Carolina.
Cedar Grove is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Grove is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Grove who work in management occupations (12.82%), law enforcement and fire fighting (11.74%), and office and administrative support (9.27%).
Of important note, Cedar Grove is also a town of artists. Cedar Grove has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cedar Grove’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.08% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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!) Cedar Grove 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. Cedar Grove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cedar Grove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cedar Grove may be for you.
One downside of living in Cedar Grove is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cedar Grove, the average commute to work is 35.23 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The population of Cedar Grove is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.36% of adults in Cedar Grove have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cedar Grove in 2022 was $37,820, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $151,280 for a family of four. However, Cedar Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cedar Grove is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cedar Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cedar Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Grove include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Cedar Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Cedar Grove, 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 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 29.5% 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.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.0% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in North Carolina, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in North Carolina.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 3.6% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Cedar Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.0% of U.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, 45.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.1%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).
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 Cedar Grove, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Jamaican roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (42.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.