Belews Creek is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,258 people and just one neighborhood, Belews Creek is the 245th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Belews Creek isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Belews Creek are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Belews Creek is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belews Creek who work in management occupations (11.65%), sales jobs (10.18%), and office and administrative support (8.17%).
Also of interest is that Belews Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Belews Creek has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Belews Creek a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Belews Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.40 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Belews Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Belews Creek citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.34% of adults in Belews Creek have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Belews Creek in 2022 was $34,143, 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 $136,572 for a family of four. However, Belews Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Belews Creek is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Belews Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Belews Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Belews Creek include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Belews Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 1.1% have Finnish ancestry.
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 Belews Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% of America'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, 33.0% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households.
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 Belews Creek, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report German roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 (39.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (17.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.