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Hoffman, NC

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Overview


Hoffman is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 415 people and just one neighborhood, Hoffman is the 502nd largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Hoffman isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hoffman are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hoffman is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hoffman who work in healthcare suport services (19.37%), food service (15.49%), and maintenance occupations (10.21%).

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

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

One downside of living in Hoffman, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.79 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

Hoffman ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.20% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Hoffman in 2018 was $22,093, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,372 for a family of four. However, Hoffman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hoffman also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.10% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

Occupations

With 3.6% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.0% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.5% have Scots-Irish 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 Hoffman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.7% 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 54.0% of America'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, 32.2% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.0%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.9%).

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 Hoffman, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (71.4%) 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 (15.1%) and 9.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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