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Stovall, NC

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Overview


Stovall is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 332 people and just one neighborhood, Stovall is the 526th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Stovall is a blue-collar town, with 54.82% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Stovall is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stovall who work in teaching (13.20%), healthcare suport services (8.12%), and sales jobs (7.11%).

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, Stovall has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Stovall a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Stovall, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.36 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Stovall is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.20% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Stovall in 2022 was $21,589, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,356 for a family of four. However, Stovall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Stovall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 42.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

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 91.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 25.0% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Stovall are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 41.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.9% 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, 33.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.7%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

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 Stovall, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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