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Landis, NC

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Overview


Landis is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,752 people and just one neighborhood, Landis is the 218th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Landis isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Landis are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Landis is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Landis who work in office and administrative support (12.11%), food service (11.55%), and teaching (11.18%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Landis telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.49% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

In Landis, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.94 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Landis who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.22% of the adults in Landis have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Landis in 2022 was $26,863, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,452 for a family of four. However, Landis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Landis, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Landis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.7% 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 72.4% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 37.8% 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 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese.

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 Landis, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (34.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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