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Stokes, NC

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Overview


Stokes is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 357 people and just one neighborhood, Stokes is the 517th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Stokes isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Stokes are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stokes is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stokes who work in sales jobs (20.53%), office and administrative support (14.21%), and maintenance occupations (13.68%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Stokes’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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

Stokes is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Stokes citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.55% of adults in Stokes have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Stokes in 2018 was $29,237, 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 $116,948 for a family of four. However, Stokes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Stokes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Of note, 65.5% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 18.7% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

Real Estate

Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 68.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (60.4%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 0.4% have Yugoslav 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 Stokes are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 65.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.9% 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, 39.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.5%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.4%).

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 Stokes, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (51.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.4%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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