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Seven Springs, NC

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Overview


Seven Springs is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 57 people and just one neighborhood, Seven Springs is the 579th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Seven Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Seven Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Seven Springs is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seven Springs who work in business and financial occupations (66.67%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Seven Springs’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Seven Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Seven Springs, the average commute to work is 32.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Seven Springs is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Seven Springs, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Demographics

The population of Seven Springs has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Seven Springs in 2022 was $23,644, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,576 for a family of four.

The people who call Seven Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seven Springs residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Seven Springs include Norwegian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Seven Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

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 Seven Springs, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 58.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

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 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Furthermore, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.8%) than in 96.2% 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 Seven Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.4% 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, 43.6% 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 11.8% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 50.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (49.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Seven Springs, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 24.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (56.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (23.8%) . 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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