Casar is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 305 people and just one neighborhood, Casar is the 531st largest community in North Carolina.
Casar is a blue-collar town, with 39.27% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Casar is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Casar who work in healthcare (14.14%), maintenance occupations (7.85%), and management occupations (7.33%).
There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Casar, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.
The overall crime rate in Casar is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Casar has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Casar a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Casar, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.65 minutes every day commuting to work.
Casar 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.
The percentage of adults in Casar who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.57% of the adults in Casar have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Casar in 2022 was $33,714, 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 $134,856 for a family of four. However, Casar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Casar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Casar residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Casar include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Casar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.7% 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.
Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Casar are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.1% 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, 35.4% 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 8.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.
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 Casar, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (1.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.