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Icard - Connelly Springs, NC

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Overview


Icard - Connelly Springs is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 5,207 people and just one neighborhood, Icard - Connelly Springs is the 152nd largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Icard - Connelly Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Icard - Connelly Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Icard - Connelly Springs is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Icard - Connelly Springs who work in maintenance occupations (10.97%), office and administrative support (8.02%), and healthcare (7.11%).

Also of interest is that Icard - Connelly Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Icard - Connelly Springs is worth considering.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Icard - Connelly Springs rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.43% of adults 25 and older in Icard - Connelly Springs 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 Icard - Connelly Springs in 2022 was $30,800, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,200 for a family of four. However, Icard - Connelly Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Icard - Connelly Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Icard - Connelly Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Icard - Connelly Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Icard - Connelly Springs include Irish, German, English, Polish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Icard - Connelly Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Spanish.

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.

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 Icard - Connelly Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.8% 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, 33.9% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

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 Icard - Connelly Springs, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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