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Elk Park, NC

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Overview


Elk Park is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 552 people and just one neighborhood, Elk Park is the 479th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Elk Park is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Elk Park is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elk Park who work in maintenance occupations (18.06%), healthcare suport services (15.74%), and office and administrative support (8.80%).

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Elk Park are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.69% of adults in Elk Park have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Elk Park in 2018 was $27,386, 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 $109,544 for a family of four. However, Elk Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Elk Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elk Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Elk Park include Irish, German, Scottish, English, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 2.5% have Welsh ancestry.

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 Elk Park are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.1% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.2%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).

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 Elk Park, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.1%). There are also a number of people of Scots-Irish ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (44.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (12.7%) . 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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