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 has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
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 managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crouse who work in management occupations (76.67%), healthcare (23.33%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
The overall crime rate in Crouse is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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.
One downside of living in Crouse, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 62.42 minutes every day commuting to work.
Crouse is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Crouse isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Crouse does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Crouse, just 7.82% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Crouse in 2022 was $66,484, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $265,936 for a family of four. However, Crouse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Crouse is a somewhat 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. Important ancestries of people in Crouse include German, Irish, Scots-Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Crouse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Indo-European and Polish.
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.
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, 1.3% 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 lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.5% 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 66.4% 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, 35.8% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.3%).
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 Crouse, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report English roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.