Lawndale - Fallston is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,773 people and just one neighborhood, Lawndale - Fallston is the 170th largest community in North Carolina.
Lawndale - Fallston is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lawndale - Fallston is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lawndale - Fallston who work in sales jobs (19.55%), management occupations (10.50%), and teaching (8.57%).
Lawndale - Fallston is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Lawndale - Fallston with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.73% of adults in Lawndale - Fallston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lawndale - Fallston in 2022 was $30,844, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $123,376 for a family of four. However, Lawndale - Fallston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lawndale - Fallston is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lawndale - Fallston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lawndale - Fallston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lawndale - Fallston include German, English, Irish, European, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lawndale - Fallston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.3% 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.
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 Lawndale - Fallston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.0% 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, 44.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.7%), and 3.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
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 Lawndale - Fallston, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.4%).
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 (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.