Cedar Fork / Fountain median real estate price is $295,947, which is more expensive than 44.3% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina and 37.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Cedar Fork / Fountain is currently $761, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 99.6% of North Carolina neighborhoods.
Cedar Fork / Fountain is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Beulaville, North Carolina.
Cedar Fork / Fountain real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Cedar Fork / Fountain has a 10.6% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 65.6% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Beulaville, the Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 91.4% of commuters who live in the Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 10.4% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
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 Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood in Beulaville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% 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 Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood, 37.2% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.1%), and 14.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.2%).
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 Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood in Beulaville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 15.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Cedar Fork / Fountain neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (91.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.