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Kittrell, NC

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Overview


Kittrell is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 127 people and just one neighborhood, Kittrell is the 571st largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Kittrell is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Kittrell is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kittrell who work in management occupations (17.86%), office and administrative support (16.07%), and food service (10.71%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Kittrell has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Kittrell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kittrell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kittrell may be for you.

One downside of living in Kittrell, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.50 minutes every day commuting to work.

Kittrell is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Kittrell who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.00% of adults in Kittrell have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Kittrell in 2022 was $44,529, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $178,116 for a family of four. However, Kittrell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Kittrell is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.0% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican 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 Kittrell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.9% 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, 33.5% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Kittrell, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.5%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (5.7%) . 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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