Linden is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 138 people and just one neighborhood, Linden is the 570th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Linden is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.00% of the Linden workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Linden is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Linden who work in office and administrative support (11.11%), sales jobs (6.67%), and management occupations (6.67%).
Of important note, Linden is also a town of artists. Linden has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Linden’s character.
Because of many things, Linden is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Linden a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Linden has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Linden’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
One downside of living in Linden, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.61 minutes every day commuting to work.
Linden 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 Linden who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.52% of the adults in Linden have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Linden in 2022 was $27,236, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,944 for a family of four. However, Linden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Linden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Linden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Linden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Linden include English, German, Irish, Scandinavian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Linden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.9% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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 Linden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.0% 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 56.0% of America'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, 39.7% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.8%), and 10.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 90.3% 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 Linden, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (51.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.