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Seven Springs, NC

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Overview


Seven Springs is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 57 people and just one neighborhood, Seven Springs is the 579th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Seven Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Seven Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Seven Springs is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seven Springs who work in business and financial occupations (66.67%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Seven Springs’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

In Seven Springs, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Seven Springs is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Seven Springs isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Seven Springs ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Seven Springs in 2022 was $23,644, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,576 for a family of four.

The people who call Seven Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seven Springs residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Seven Springs include Norwegian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Seven Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

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.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 58.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Furthermore, more people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.8%) than in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Seven Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.4% 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, 43.6% 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 11.8% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 50.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (49.5%).

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 Seven Springs, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 24.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (56.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (23.8%) . 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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