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Maple Hill, NC

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Overview


Maple Hill is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,080 people and just one neighborhood, Maple Hill is the 316th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Maple Hill is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Maple Hill is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maple Hill who work in healthcare (14.21%), maintenance occupations (12.97%), and food service (9.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Maple Hill 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. Maple Hill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Maple Hill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Maple Hill may be for you.

One downside of living in Maple Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.18 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Maple Hill with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.45% of adults in Maple Hill have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Maple Hill in 2022 was $34,423, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,692 for a family of four. However, Maple Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Maple Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Maple Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maple Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maple Hill include German, English, Irish, Polish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Maple Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Maple Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 22.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

The Neighbors

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 Maple Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.1% of U.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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.0%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Maple Hill, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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