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.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Casar is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.85% of the Casar workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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%).
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!) Casar 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. Casar has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Casar than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Casar may be for you.
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.
Casar 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 percentage of adults in Casar with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.79% of adults in Casar have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
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.
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.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 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.
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.
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.
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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 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.
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.