Everetts is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 149 people and just one neighborhood, Everetts is the 566th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Everetts was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Everetts isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Everetts are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Everetts is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Everetts who work in management occupations (20.77%), office and administrative support (14.62%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (12.31%).
The overall crime rate in Everetts 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.
Everetts is a very car-oriented town. 99.07% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Everetts is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Everetts has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
As is often the case in a small town, Everetts doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Everetts with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.98% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Everetts in 2022 was $16,597, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,388 for a family of four. However, Everetts contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Everetts is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Everetts home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Everetts residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Everetts also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.68% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Everetts include Italian, English, Irish, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Everetts is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.7% 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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this 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 Everetts are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.6% of America'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, 31.5% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.0%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Everetts, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.2%).
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 (36.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.