Crouse is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 322 people and just one neighborhood, Crouse is the third largest community in North Carolina.
Crouse is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Crouse is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Crouse who work in management occupations (32.45%), law enforcement and fire fighting (23.18%), and healthcare suport services (11.92%).
Overall, Crouse’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town 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, Crouse has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Crouse a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Crouse, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.19 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Crouse does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Crouse rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.67% of adults 25 and older in Crouse have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Crouse in 2022 was $49,773, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $199,092 for a family of four. However, Crouse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Crouse is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Crouse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crouse residents report their race to be White. Crouse also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.92% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Crouse include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Crouse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav 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 Crouse are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.0% 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 74.7% of America'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, 39.3% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.2%).
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 Crouse, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.0%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.