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Seven Springs, NC

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Overview


Seven Springs is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 56 people and just one neighborhood, Seven Springs is the 579th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Seven Springs is a blue-collar town, with 66.67% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Seven Springs is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seven Springs who work in sales jobs (16.67%), business and financial occupations (16.67%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Seven Springs is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Seven Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Seven Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Seven Springs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.50 minutes every day commuting to work.

Seven Springs 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.

Demographics

Seven Springs ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Seven Springs in 2022 was $20,018, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,072 for a family of four. Seven Springs also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.67% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Seven Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seven Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Seven Springs include Irish, French, Dutch West Indian, Norwegian, and Yugoslavian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 56.1% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.4% 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.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 14.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.0% of American neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (63.4%) than found in 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.4% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Seven Springs are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 63.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.5% 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, 46.8% 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 18.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 14.5% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 50.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (49.1%).

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 Seven Springs, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%). In addition, 22.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (53.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.3%) 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 (23.4%) . 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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