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Lowgap, NC

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Overview


Lowgap is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 267 people and just one neighborhood, Lowgap is the 541st largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Lowgap was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lowgap, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.48% of Lowgap’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lowgap is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lowgap who work in office and administrative support (26.19%), healthcare suport services (20.24%), and sales jobs (9.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Lowgap’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

In Lowgap, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.71 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lowgap ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lowgap in 2022 was $21,407, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,628 for a family of four. However, Lowgap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lowgap is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lowgap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lowgap residents report their race to be White. Lowgap also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.72% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lowgap include English, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Lowgap is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 71.8% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 39 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.1% 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 Lowgap 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. In addition, 3.1% 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 71.0% 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, 41.4% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.1%), and 14.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Lowgap, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (17.6%) . 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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