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.
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%).
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, Kittrell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Kittrell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Kittrell is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Kittrell, the average commute to work is 31.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Kittrell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.2%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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.
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 (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.