Long View is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 5,207 people and just one neighborhood, Long View is the 154th largest community in North Carolina.
Long View is a blue-collar town, with 50.80% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Long View is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Long View who work in food service (7.96%), sales jobs (7.62%), and office and administrative support (7.03%).
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!) Long View 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. Long View has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Long View than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Long View may be for you.
The population of Long View has a very low overall level of education: only 8.23% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Long View in 2022 was $26,002, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,008 for a family of four. However, Long View contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Long View is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Long View home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Long View residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Long View also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.44% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Long View include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and African.
The most common language spoken in Long View is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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 Long View are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.1% 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 57.6% 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, 55.5% 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 19.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.2%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.1%).
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 Long View, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (7.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.