Erwin is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,692 people and just one neighborhood, Erwin is the 177th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Erwin is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.21% of the Erwin workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Erwin is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Erwin who work in sales jobs (9.17%), food service (9.06%), and office and administrative support (7.89%).
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, Erwin is worth considering.
One downside of living in Erwin, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.00 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Erwin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Erwin with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.85% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Erwin in 2022 was $23,620, 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 $94,480 for a family of four. However, Erwin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Erwin is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Erwin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Erwin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Erwin also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.18% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Erwin include English, Irish, Jamaican, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Erwin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry.
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 Erwin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.0% 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, 35.1% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 13.8% 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 87.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Erwin, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (4.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (30.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.