Tobaccoville is a very small village located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,696 people and just one neighborhood, Tobaccoville is the 270th largest community in North Carolina.
Tobaccoville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tobaccoville is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tobaccoville who work in sales jobs (12.44%), office and administrative support (10.92%), and management occupations (7.88%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 22.62% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Tobaccoville 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. Tobaccoville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tobaccoville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tobaccoville may be for you.
As is often the case in a small village, Tobaccoville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Tobaccoville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Tobaccoville, 24.20% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Tobaccoville in 2022 was $30,967, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,868 for a family of four. However, Tobaccoville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tobaccoville is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Tobaccoville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tobaccoville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tobaccoville include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Tobaccoville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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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 Tobaccoville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.6% 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 68.9% of America'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, 38.1% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 97.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Tobaccoville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.4%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.