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Oak City - Hamilton, NC

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Overview


Oak City - Hamilton is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,192 people and just one neighborhood, Oak City - Hamilton is the 293rd largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Oak City - Hamilton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.01% of Oak City - Hamilton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Oak City - Hamilton is a town of service providers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak City - Hamilton who work in management occupations (18.47%), personal care services (9.77%), and healthcare suport services (9.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Oak City - Hamilton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.52 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Oak City - Hamilton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Oak City - Hamilton has a very low overall level of education: only 6.63% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Oak City - Hamilton in 2022 was $30,747, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,988 for a family of four. However, Oak City - Hamilton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Oak City - Hamilton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oak City - Hamilton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oak City - Hamilton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Oak City - Hamilton include English, German, Irish, Italian, and African.

The most common language spoken in Oak City - Hamilton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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 Oak City - Hamilton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of all American neighborhoods.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.4% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.2% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in North Carolina, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in North Carolina.

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 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Oak City - Hamilton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.2% 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, 34.0% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

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 Oak City - Hamilton, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (2.6%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (91.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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