Creston is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,438 people and just one neighborhood, Creston is the 280th largest community in North Carolina.
Creston is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Creston is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Creston who work in office and administrative support (11.73%), management occupations (8.89%), and sales jobs (7.95%).
Of important note, Creston is also a town of artists. Creston has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Creston’s character.
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, Creston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Creston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Creston, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.02 minutes every day commuting to work.
The education level of Creston citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.85% of adults 25 and older in Creston have a college degree.
The per capita income in Creston in 2022 was $37,703, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,812 for a family of four. However, Creston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Creston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Creston residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Creston include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Creston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Spanish.
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.
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 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.0% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.8% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Creston 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 88.6% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina. If you are considering retiring to North Carolina, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Creston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.1% 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, 37.1% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.3%), and 16.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Spanish.
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 Creston, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.