High Shoals is a tiny city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 614 people and just one neighborhood, High Shoals is the 464th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in High Shoals, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.49% of High Shoals’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, High Shoals is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in High Shoals who work in office and administrative support (15.08%), teaching (8.33%), and management occupations (8.33%).
Also of interest is that High Shoals has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The city 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, High Shoals has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes High Shoals a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
High Shoals is a small city, 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 people in High Shoals with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.16% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in High Shoals in 2022 was $21,706, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,824 for a family of four. However, High Shoals contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
High Shoals is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call High Shoals home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of High Shoals residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in High Shoals include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in High Shoals is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 High Shoals, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 High Shoals are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% of U.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, 44.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.7%), and 10.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 High Shoals, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report German roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (49.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.