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Gibson, NC

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Overview


Gibson is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 445 people and just one neighborhood, Gibson is the 494th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Gibson is a blue-collar town, with 35.71% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gibson is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gibson who work in management occupations (20.41%), sales jobs (9.18%), and office and administrative support (8.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The population of Gibson has a very low overall level of education: only 9.52% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Gibson in 2018 was $22,424, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,696 for a family of four. However, Gibson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gibson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.06% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.5% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American 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 Gibson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 44.5% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).

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 Gibson, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (11.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.7%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (52.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (16.1%) . 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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