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Mount Ulla, NC

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Overview


Mount Ulla is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,981 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Ulla is the second largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mount Ulla is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.87% of the Mount Ulla workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mount Ulla is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Ulla who work in office and administrative support (13.24%), management occupations (6.01%), and sales jobs (5.50%).

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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Mount Ulla is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.62% of adults 25 and older in Mount Ulla have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mount Ulla in 2018 was $31,088, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,352 for a family of four. However, Mount Ulla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Ulla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.6% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Mount Ulla are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.8% 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, 39.9% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.6%).

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 Mount Ulla, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.2%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (52.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (12.1%) . 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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