Linden is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 137 people and just one neighborhood, Linden is the 570th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Linden, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.00% of Linden’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Linden is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Linden who work in office and administrative support (11.11%), sales jobs (6.67%), and management occupations (6.67%).
Of important note, Linden is also a town of artists. Linden has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Linden’s character.
Because of many things, Linden is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Linden a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Linden has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Linden’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
One downside of living in Linden is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Linden, the average commute to work is 33.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Linden doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Linden who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.52% of the adults in Linden have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Linden in 2022 was $27,236, 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 $108,944 for a family of four. However, Linden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Linden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Linden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Linden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Linden include English, German, Irish, Scandinavian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Linden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.9% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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 Linden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.0% of America'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, 39.7% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.8%), and 10.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Linden, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.