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Pinetops, NC

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Overview


Pinetops is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,184 people and just one neighborhood, Pinetops is the 382nd largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Pinetops is a blue-collar town, with 39.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pinetops is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinetops who work in sales jobs (15.82%), food service (15.27%), and management occupations (6.55%).

Also of interest is that Pinetops has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of Pinetops are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.05% of adults in Pinetops have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Pinetops in 2018 was $27,273, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,092 for a family of four. However, Pinetops contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.9% 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.

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 Pinetops are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.8% 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, 36.3% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.1%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).

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 Pinetops, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.7%).

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (9.4%) . 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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