Cordova is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,653 people and just one neighborhood, Cordova is the 330th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Cordova, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.89% of Cordova’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cordova is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cordova who work in office and administrative support (23.13%), teaching (19.49%), and sales jobs (6.01%).
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!) Cordova 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. Cordova has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cordova than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cordova may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Cordova doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Cordova who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.06% of the adults in Cordova have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cordova in 2022 was $25,390, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,560 for a family of four. However, Cordova contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cordova also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 51.23% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cordova is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cordova home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cordova residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Cordova include Irish, English, German, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Cordova is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.7% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (61.0%) than found in 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
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 Cordova are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 61.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.2% 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, 37.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.3%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 89.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Cordova, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.7%), and residents who report German roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (3.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.6%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.