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Sedalia, NC

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Overview


Sedalia is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 682 people and just one neighborhood, Sedalia is the 449th largest community in North Carolina.

Sedalia real estate is some of the most expensive in North Carolina, although Sedalia house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Sedalia, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.01% of Sedalia’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sedalia is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sedalia who work in office and administrative support (12.33%), food service (10.96%), and management occupations (10.96%).

Also of interest is that Sedalia has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Sedalia is worth considering.

One downside of living in Sedalia is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sedalia, the average commute to work is 31.02 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Sedalia is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Sedalia isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.24% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Sedalia are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.46% of adults in Sedalia having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sedalia in 2018 was $32,902, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,608 for a family of four. However, Sedalia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sedalia is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sedalia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sedalia residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Sedalia include African, Scottish, Italian, European, and English.

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

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

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 Sedalia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.7% of U.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, 30.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.9%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.6%).

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 Sedalia, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (5.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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