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Boomer, NC

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Overview


Boomer is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,740 people and just one neighborhood, Boomer is the 166th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Boomer is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.29% of the Boomer workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Boomer is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Boomer who work in healthcare (9.23%), sales jobs (8.18%), and food service (5.99%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.67% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Boomer 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. Boomer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Boomer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Boomer may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Boomer doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Boomer who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.56% of the adults in Boomer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Boomer in 2022 was $27,015, 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 $108,060 for a family of four. However, Boomer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Boomer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boomer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boomer include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Boomer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Persian.

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

Occupations

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 44.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.7% of American neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Boomer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.7% 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, 44.2% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.2%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Boomer, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report German roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.2%) 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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