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Oak City - Hamilton, NC

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Overview


Oak City - Hamilton is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,192 people and just one neighborhood, Oak City - Hamilton is the 293rd largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oak City - Hamilton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oak City - Hamilton is a town of service providers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak City - Hamilton who work in management occupations (20.68%), healthcare suport services (10.93%), and personal care services (8.11%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Oak City - Hamilton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Oak City - Hamilton, the average commute to work is 32.14 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Oak City - Hamilton has a very low overall level of education: only 8.30% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Oak City - Hamilton in 2018 was $30,188, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,752 for a family of four. However, Oak City - Hamilton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Oak City - Hamilton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Oak City - Hamilton is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NC, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.1% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina. If you are considering retiring to North Carolina, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 Oak City - Hamilton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% 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, 30.6% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.

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 Oak City - Hamilton, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.7%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (3.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (88.6%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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