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Welcome, NC

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Overview


Welcome is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,131 people and just one neighborhood, Welcome is the 199th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Welcome, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.33% of Welcome’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Welcome is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Welcome who work in office and administrative support (12.66%), sales jobs (8.22%), and healthcare (8.04%).

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Welcome are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.29% of adults in Welcome have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Welcome in 2018 was $26,662, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,648 for a family of four. However, Welcome contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Welcome home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Welcome residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Welcome include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Swedish.

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

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

With more than 1.9% of residents living with a same sex partner, is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.7% 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.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

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 Welcome are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.3% 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, 44.0% 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households.

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 Welcome, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (36.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (12.5%) . 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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