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Goldston, NC

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Overview


Goldston is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 244 people and just one neighborhood, Goldston is the 550th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Goldston is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 93.81% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Goldston is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Goldston who work in maintenance occupations (45.13%), healthcare suport services (22.57%), and office and administrative support (6.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Goldston is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Goldston, the average commute to work is 36.45 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Goldston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Goldston rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.99% of adults 25 and older in Goldston 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 Goldston in 2022 was $22,666, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,664 for a family of four. However, Goldston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Goldston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Goldston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Goldston include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Goldston is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Goldston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 44 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 1.7% have Romanian ancestry.

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 Goldston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.3% 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 63.8% 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, 34.8% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Chinese (3.0%).

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 Goldston, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (4.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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