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Long View, NC

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Overview


Long View is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 5,172 people and just one neighborhood, Long View is the 154th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Long View is a blue-collar town, with 42.70% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Long View is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Long View who work in sales jobs (10.33%), food service (9.76%), and office and administrative support (6.68%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In Long View, just 7.06% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Long View in 2018 was $26,604, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,416 for a family of four. However, Long View contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Long View is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Long View home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Long View residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Long View also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.38% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Long View include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.

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

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.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.6% 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.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Long View are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 48.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (12.6%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.6%).

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 Long View, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Asian roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.3%), among others. In addition, 12.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (39.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (24.8%) . 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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