Robersonville is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,223 people and just one neighborhood, Robersonville is the 377th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Robersonville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Robersonville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Robersonville who work in office and administrative support (23.59%), sales jobs (14.05%), and food service (9.37%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Robersonville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Robersonville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Robersonville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Robersonville may be for you.
The citizens of Robersonville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.15% of adults in Robersonville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Robersonville in 2022 was $24,597, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,388 for a family of four. However, Robersonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Robersonville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Robersonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Robersonville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Robersonville include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Robersonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Tagalog.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Robersonville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 29.3% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 19.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
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 Robersonville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (7.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.9%), along with some Eastern European ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.