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Ellerbe, NC

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Overview


Ellerbe is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 852 people and just one neighborhood, Ellerbe is the 418th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ellerbe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.27% of the Ellerbe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ellerbe is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellerbe who work in healthcare (11.18%), management occupations (8.39%), and teaching (8.07%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Ellerbe has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ellerbe has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ellerbe has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ellerbe than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ellerbe may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Ellerbe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Ellerbe are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.58% of adults in Ellerbe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Ellerbe in 2018 was $22,801, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,204 for a family of four. However, Ellerbe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ellerbe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ellerbe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellerbe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ellerbe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.96% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ellerbe include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Ellerbe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic 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 Ellerbe, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 24 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Ellerbe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% 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, 40.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 6.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.3%).

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 Ellerbe, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.3%) 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 (5.4%) . 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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