McLeansville is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,113 people and just one neighborhood, McLeansville is the 394th largest community in North Carolina.
McLeansville real estate is some of the most expensive in North Carolina, although McLeansville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McLeansville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 58.21% of the McLeansville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McLeansville is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in McLeansville who work in sales jobs (15.42%), management occupations (10.45%), and maintenance occupations (7.46%).
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, McLeansville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McLeansville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.88 minutes getting to work every day.
McLeansville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around McLeansville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.01% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, McLeansville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in McLeansville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.19% of adults in McLeansville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in McLeansville in 2022 was $30,756, 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 $123,024 for a family of four. However, McLeansville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McLeansville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McLeansville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McLeansville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. McLeansville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.63% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McLeansville include English, European, Irish, German, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in McLeansville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 McLeansville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.2% 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, 44.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.5%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.9%).
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 McLeansville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (8.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
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 (61.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.5%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.