Ansonville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 443 people and just one neighborhood, Ansonville is the 497th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Ansonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 65.44% of Ansonville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ansonville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ansonville who work in sales jobs (10.07%), food service (8.72%), and management occupations (3.36%).
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, Ansonville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ansonville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Ansonville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Ansonville, just 6.45% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Ansonville in 2022 was $23,580, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,320 for a family of four.
Ansonville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ansonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ansonville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Ansonville include Italian, English, Irish, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ansonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Ansonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.4% 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, 50.7% 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 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.3%), and 7.4% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Ansonville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.