Ararat is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,882 people and just one neighborhood, Ararat is the 255th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ararat is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.51% of the Ararat workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ararat is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ararat who work in management occupations (10.82%), office and administrative support (9.10%), and food service (8.00%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ararat has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ararat has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ararat than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ararat may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Ararat doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Ararat have a very low rate of college education: just 9.56% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Ararat in 2022 was $31,464, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $125,856 for a family of four. However, Ararat contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ararat is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ararat home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ararat residents report their race to be White. Ararat also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.22% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ararat include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Ararat is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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.
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 42.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.7% of American neighborhoods.
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 Ararat are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.9% 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 61.8% 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, 42.5% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.8%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Ararat, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.2%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (33.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.