Stokes is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 357 people and just one neighborhood, Stokes is the 517th largest community in North Carolina.
Stokes is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Stokes is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stokes who work in maintenance occupations (41.89%), architecture and engineering (35.14%), and office and administrative support (22.97%).
A relatively large number of people in Stokes telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.60% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Overall, Stokes’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Stokes has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Stokes has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stokes than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stokes may be for you.
One downside of living in Stokes, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 57.79 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Stokes does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Stokes ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.08% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Stokes in 2022 was $27,508, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,032 for a family of four.
Stokes is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stokes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stokes residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stokes include German, Irish, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Stokes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Russian.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 14.4% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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 Stokes are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.8%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (18.8%).
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 Stokes, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (21.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 10.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (44.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.8%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.