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McLeansville, NC

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Overview


McLeansville is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,113 people and just one neighborhood, McLeansville is the 394th largest community in North Carolina.

McLeansville real estate is some of the most expensive in North Carolina, although McLeansville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

McLeansville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, McLeansville is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in McLeansville who work in business and financial occupations (20.71%), office and administrative support (17.14%), and management occupations (16.43%).

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

McLeansville 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 people in McLeansville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.65% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in McLeansville in 2022 was $44,288, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $177,152 for a family of four. However, McLeansville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in McLeansville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NC, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.0% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina. If you are considering retiring to North Carolina, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 McLeansville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 70.1% 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, 50.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 19.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.0%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 McLeansville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.6%) 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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