Pinebluff is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,536 people and just one neighborhood, Pinebluff is the 354th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Pinebluff was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Pinebluff economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Pinebluff, where the median household income is $70,750.00.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pinebluff is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pinebluff is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinebluff who work in office and administrative support (11.44%), teaching (9.15%), and maintenance occupations (8.88%).
Also of interest is that Pinebluff has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.53% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Being a small town, Pinebluff does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Pinebluff are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.46% of adults in Pinebluff having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pinebluff in 2022 was $27,989, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,956 for a family of four. However, Pinebluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pinebluff is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pinebluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinebluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pinebluff also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.30% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pinebluff include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Pinebluff 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 neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.9% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 2.8% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Pinebluff are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.6% of America'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, 38.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.2%).
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 Pinebluff, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (30.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (19.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.