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Caroleen is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 560 people and just one neighborhood, Caroleen is the 472nd largest community in North Carolina.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Caroleen is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.45% of the Caroleen workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Caroleen is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Caroleen who work in office and administrative support (45.90%), art, media, and design (7.65%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Of important note, Caroleen is also a town of artists. Caroleen has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Caroleen’s character.
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!) Caroleen 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. Caroleen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Caroleen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Caroleen may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Caroleen spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.71 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Caroleen is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Caroleen is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Caroleen has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Caroleen 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 citizens of Caroleen are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.04% of adults in Caroleen have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Caroleen in 2022 was $29,038, 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 $116,152 for a family of four. However, Caroleen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Caroleen is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Caroleen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Caroleen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Caroleen include English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Caroleen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
Occupations
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 Caroleen are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.9% of U.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, 55.8% 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 15.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.4%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).
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 Caroleen, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (4.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (51.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
