Marble is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 278 people and just one neighborhood, Marble is the 536th largest community in North Carolina.
Marble is a blue-collar town, with 48.61% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Marble is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Marble who work in sales jobs (20.83%), food service (12.50%), and office and administrative support (6.94%).
One downside of living in Marble, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 45.63 minutes every day commuting to work.
Marble is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Marble is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Marble has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Marble 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 citizens of Marble are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.70% of adults in Marble having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Marble in 2022 was $19,135, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,540 for a family of four. However, Marble contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Marble home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marble residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marble include Irish, Hungarian, French Canadian, Scots-Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Marble is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 Brazilian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 4.5% have Native American ancestry.
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 Marble are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.2% 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, 35.4% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 18.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.0%).
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 Marble, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (4.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.