Faith is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 838 people and just one neighborhood, Faith is the 425th largest community in North Carolina. Faith has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Faith, where the median household income is $128,274.00.
Faith is a blue-collar town, with 38.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Faith is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Faith who work in business and financial occupations (10.95%), sales jobs (9.65%), and management occupations (9.51%).
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!) Faith 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. Faith has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Faith than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Faith may be for you.
Being a small town, Faith does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Faith citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.88% of adults in Faith have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Faith in 2022 was $52,971, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $211,884 for a family of four.
The people who call Faith home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Faith residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Faith include German, Irish, English, Scandinavian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Faith is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Serbo-Croatian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Faith are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.2% 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 57.3% 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, 37.0% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.6%).
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 Faith, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (10.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.7%) 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 (19.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.