Macclesfield is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 406 people and just one neighborhood, Macclesfield is the 504th largest community in North Carolina.
Macclesfield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Macclesfield is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Macclesfield who work in sales jobs (20.90%), office and administrative support (14.18%), and healthcare suport services (11.94%).
Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.78% of adults 25 and older in Macclesfield have a college degree.
The per capita income in Macclesfield in 2022 was $27,103, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,412 for a family of four. However, Macclesfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Macclesfield is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Macclesfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Macclesfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Macclesfield include English, French, Scots-Irish, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Macclesfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Italian.
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.
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 51.3% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 19.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.6% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
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 Macclesfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.6% 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, 50.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.2%), and 13.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Macclesfield, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.1%), and residents who report German roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.2%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.