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Drexel, NC

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Overview


Drexel is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,754 people and just one neighborhood, Drexel is the 319th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Drexel, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.74% of Drexel’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Drexel is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Drexel who work in healthcare (9.45%), management occupations (6.99%), and healthcare suport services (6.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Drexel’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Drexel is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.20% of adults 25 and older in Drexel have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Drexel in 2018 was $31,555, 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 $126,220 for a family of four. However, Drexel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Drexel is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood stands out within North Carolina for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 9.0% of college-friendly places to live in NC. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.

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 Drexel are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.6% 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 59.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 29.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (28.1%), and 13.5% 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 (3.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Drexel, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (53.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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