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Buies Creek, NC

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Overview


Buies Creek is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,253 people and just one neighborhood, Buies Creek is the 241st largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Buies Creek was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Buies Creek economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Buies Creek, where the median household income is $42,208.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Buies Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Buies Creek is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buies Creek who work in food service (13.98%), personal care services (11.84%), and healthcare (11.20%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

For a small town, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Buies Creek. This is not typical for smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Buies Creek.

Buies Creek is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Buies Creek, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Buies Creek is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 63.57% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Buies Creek in 2018 was $18,595, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,380 for a family of four. However, Buies Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Buies Creek also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.07% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Buies Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 35.0% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 13.4% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 96.6% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 96.8% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 Buies Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.3% 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, 38.5% 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 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.4%), and 7.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.3%).

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 Buies Creek, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (13.4%) and 7.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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