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Lowgap, NC

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Overview


Lowgap is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 267 people and just one neighborhood, Lowgap is the 541st largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Lowgap was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lowgap is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.48% of the Lowgap workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lowgap is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lowgap who work in office and administrative support (26.19%), healthcare suport services (20.24%), and sales jobs (9.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Lowgap 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.

One downside of living in Lowgap, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.71 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Lowgap does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lowgap ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lowgap in 2022 was $21,407, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,628 for a family of four. However, Lowgap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lowgap is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lowgap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lowgap residents report their race to be White. Lowgap also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.72% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lowgap include English, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Lowgap is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Lowgap, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Lowgap are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 71.0% of America'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, 41.4% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.1%), and 14.6% 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 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).

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 Lowgap, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (30.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (17.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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