Haw River is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,287 people and just one neighborhood, Haw River is the 290th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Haw River is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.08% of the Haw River workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Haw River is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Haw River who work in sales jobs (11.00%), maintenance occupations (10.44%), and management occupations (8.56%).
Also of interest is that Haw River has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small town, Haw River does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Haw River with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.27% of adults in Haw River have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Haw River in 2022 was $22,774, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,096 for a family of four. However, Haw River contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Haw River is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Haw River home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Haw River residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Haw River also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.04% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Haw River include German, Irish, English, Welsh, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Haw River is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.7% 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.
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 Haw River are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 33.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.9%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.1%).
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 Haw River, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.