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Grover, NC

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Overview


Grover is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 808 people and just one neighborhood, Grover is the 429th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Grover isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Grover are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grover is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grover who work in maintenance occupations (15.03%), office and administrative support (13.47%), and management occupations (12.95%).

Of important note, Grover is also a town of artists. Grover has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Grover’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.92% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

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

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Grover with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.16% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grover in 2018 was $24,365, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,460 for a family of four. However, Grover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grover home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grover residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Grover include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Grover is English. Other important languages spoken here include Laotian and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.2% 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.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (59.6%) than found in 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

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 44.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.7% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Grover are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 59.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.7% 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, 44.1% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.1%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

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 Grover, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (93.5%) 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.


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