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Casar, NC

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Overview


Casar is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 305 people and just one neighborhood, Casar is the 531st largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Casar is a blue-collar town, with 41.85% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Casar is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Casar who work in healthcare (14.13%), teaching (8.15%), and maintenance occupations (7.61%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Casar is worth considering.

One downside of living in Casar, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.49 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Casar does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Casar rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.79% of adults 25 and older in Casar have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Casar in 2022 was $30,192, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,768 for a family of four. However, Casar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Casar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Casar residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Casar include English, Irish, German, European, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Car Ownership

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 38.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.4% 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

Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Casar are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.6% 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, 36.9% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Casar, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (6.8%) . 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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