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Mount Ulla, NC

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Overview


Mount Ulla is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 5,063 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Ulla is the second largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Mount Ulla, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.56% of Mount Ulla’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Ulla is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Ulla who work in management occupations (11.86%), office and administrative support (10.86%), and maintenance occupations (4.35%).

A relatively large number of people in Mount Ulla telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.21% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mount Ulla has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Ulla a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Mount Ulla does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Mount Ulla are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.91% of adults in Mount Ulla having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mount Ulla in 2022 was $33,268, 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 $133,072 for a family of four. However, Mount Ulla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Ulla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 29.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Mount Ulla are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.3% 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 51.8% 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, 38.6% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.6%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.7%).

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 Mount Ulla, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.3%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (15.5%) . 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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