Currie is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,825 people and just one neighborhood, Currie is the 326th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Currie is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.64% of the Currie workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Currie is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Currie who work in computer science and math (12.59%), food service (11.47%), and office and administrative support (8.67%).
Also of interest is that Currie has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Currie has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Currie a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Currie is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Currie, the average commute to work is 36.01 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Currie with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Currie in 2022 was $23,786, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,144 for a family of four. However, Currie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Currie is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Currie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Currie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Currie also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.67% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Currie include Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Currie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Currie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 40.7% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 89.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Currie, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (16.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.