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Lilesville, NC

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Overview


Lilesville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 393 people and just one neighborhood, Lilesville is the 508th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lilesville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.03% of Lilesville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lilesville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lilesville who work in healthcare suport services (15.38%), management occupations (15.38%), and sales jobs (12.55%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.67% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

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, Lilesville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lilesville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Lilesville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.44 minutes every day commuting to work.

Lilesville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Lilesville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.43% of the adults in Lilesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lilesville in 2022 was $21,075, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,300 for a family of four. However, Lilesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lilesville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lilesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lilesville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Lilesville include English, Irish, German, French, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Lilesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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 Lilesville, 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 54.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of American neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 46.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Lilesville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% 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, 54.1% 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 18.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.2%), and 11.9% 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 92.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lilesville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.8%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report German roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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