East Spencer is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,607 people and just one neighborhood, East Spencer is the 341st largest community in North Carolina.
East Spencer is a blue-collar town, with 43.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, East Spencer is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in East Spencer who work in healthcare (12.88%), food service (6.32%), and healthcare suport services (6.32%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, East Spencer is worth considering.
East Spencer 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 people in East Spencer with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.31% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in East Spencer in 2022 was $28,733, 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 $114,932 for a family of four. However, East Spencer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
East Spencer is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call East Spencer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Spencer residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in East Spencer include Irish, English, African, German, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in East Spencer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have African 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 East Spencer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.5% 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, 37.8% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.1%), and 8.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.7%).
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 East Spencer, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (5.3%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report Arab roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.3%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.