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Wilson's Mills, NC

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Overview


Wilson's Mills is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,741 people and just one neighborhood, Wilson's Mills is the 273rd largest community in North Carolina.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wilson's Mills is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wilson's Mills is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilson's Mills who work in business and financial occupations (13.54%), office and administrative support (11.69%), and sales jobs (9.42%).

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Wilson's Mills are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.43% of adults in Wilson's Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Wilson's Mills in 2018 was $22,503, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,012 for a family of four. However, Wilson's Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wilson's Mills also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.71% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Wilson's Mills is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wilson's Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Wilson's Mills, accounting for 37.85% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Wilson's Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wilson's Mills include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Northern European, and German.

The most common language spoken in Wilson's Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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

People

If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 13.5% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of North Carolina.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry.

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 Wilson's Mills are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.9% 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, 51.4% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.2%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.0%).

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 Wilson's Mills, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (26.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.1%) 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 (10.2%) . 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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