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East Spencer, NC

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Overview


East Spencer is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,590 people and just one neighborhood, East Spencer is the 341st largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

East Spencer is a blue-collar town, with 38.40% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, East Spencer is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Spencer who work in healthcare (15.21%), business and financial occupations (6.73%), and food service (6.48%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, East Spencer has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes East Spencer a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, East Spencer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of East Spencer rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.04% of adults 25 and older in East Spencer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in East Spencer in 2018 was $25,641, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,564 for a family of four. However, East Spencer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. East Spencer also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.51% of its population below the federal poverty line.

East Spencer is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call East Spencer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Spencer residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in East Spencer include German, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, and African.

The most common language spoken in East Spencer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 East Spencer, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

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 East Spencer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.2% 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, 39.4% 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 36.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 7.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 East Spencer, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (4.3%). There are also a number of people of Arab ancestry (2.1%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (1.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (19.9%) . 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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