Lewiston Woodville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 415 people and just one neighborhood, Lewiston Woodville is the 500th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Lewiston Woodville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lewiston Woodville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lewiston Woodville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lewiston Woodville who work in office and administrative support (21.57%), management occupations (18.30%), and food service (9.15%).
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, Lewiston Woodville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lewiston Woodville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lewiston Woodville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.77 minutes every day commuting to work.
Lewiston Woodville 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.
The education level of Lewiston Woodville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.89% of adults 25 and older in Lewiston Woodville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lewiston Woodville in 2022 was $33,724, 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 $134,896 for a family of four. However, Lewiston Woodville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lewiston Woodville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lewiston Woodville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lewiston Woodville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Lewiston Woodville include French, Italian, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lewiston Woodville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
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 Lewiston Woodville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.6% 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.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.6% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
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 Lewiston Woodville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.9% 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, 39.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.8%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.
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 Lewiston Woodville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (4.8%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report English roots (1.5%).
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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.