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Lucama, NC

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Overview


Lucama is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,038 people and just one neighborhood, Lucama is the 399th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lucama is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.66% of the Lucama workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lucama is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lucama who work in sales jobs (12.53%), farm management occupations (10.87%), and teaching (10.40%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Lucama work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Lucama doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Lucama with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.15% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lucama in 2022 was $18,643, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,572 for a family of four. However, Lucama contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lucama also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.59% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Lucama is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lucama home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lucama residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Lucama also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.15% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lucama include English, Irish, Portuguese, German, and European.

The most common language spoken in Lucama is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Lucama, 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 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.8% 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 Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Lucama are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 32.9% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.1%).

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 Lucama, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.6%), along with some South American ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (44.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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