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Lilesville, NC

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Overview


Lilesville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 393 people and just one neighborhood, Lilesville is the 508th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lilesville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.10% of the Lilesville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lilesville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lilesville who work in management occupations (14.03%), healthcare suport services (9.50%), and sales jobs (8.60%).

Of important note, Lilesville is also a town of artists. Lilesville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lilesville’s character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.72% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

One downside of living in Lilesville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lilesville, the average commute to work is 36.19 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The education level of Lilesville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.06% of adults 25 and older in Lilesville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Lilesville in 2018 was $19,366, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,464 for a family of four. However, Lilesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 53.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of American neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 92.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Lilesville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.1% 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 53.7% 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, 53.8% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.5%), and 10.0% 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 94.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Lilesville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.7%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (92.2%) 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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