Faith is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 827 people and just one neighborhood, Faith is the 425th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Faith was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Faith economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Faith, where the median household income is $123,456.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Faith is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.04% of the Faith workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Faith is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Faith who work in office and administrative support (10.03%), management occupations (9.14%), and business and financial occupations (8.41%).
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, Faith has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Faith a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Faith does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Faith is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.83% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Faith in 2022 was $47,933, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $191,732 for a family of four.
The people who call Faith home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Faith residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Faith include German, Irish, English, Scandinavian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Faith is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Serbo-Croatian.
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 Scots-Irish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 3.6% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Faith are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.7% 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 54.0% 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, 34.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.3%).
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 Faith, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (17.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.