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Moravian Falls, NC

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Overview


Moravian Falls is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,712 people and just one neighborhood, Moravian Falls is the 321st largest community in North Carolina. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Moravian Falls, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Moravian Falls, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Moravian Falls’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Moravian Falls does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $52,217.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Moravian Falls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Moravian Falls is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moravian Falls who work in management occupations (35.73%), sales jobs (21.88%), and teaching (6.93%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.42% 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, Moravian Falls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moravian Falls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Moravian Falls are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.48% of adults in Moravian Falls having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Moravian Falls in 2022 was $33,471, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,884 for a family of four. However, Moravian Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Moravian Falls is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moravian Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moravian Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Moravian Falls also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.76% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Moravian Falls include English, German, Swedish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Moravian Falls 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 87.7% 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, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Moravian Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% of U.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, 38.5% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.1%).

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 Moravian Falls, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (39.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.6%) 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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