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Biscoe - Star, NC

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Overview


Biscoe - Star is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,395 people and just one neighborhood, Biscoe - Star is the 187th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Biscoe - Star is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.85% of the Biscoe - Star workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Biscoe - Star is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Biscoe - Star who work in sales jobs (9.89%), food service (9.59%), and healthcare (7.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Biscoe - Star 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.

Demographics

The education level of Biscoe - Star citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.91% of adults 25 and older in Biscoe - Star have a college degree.

The per capita income in Biscoe - Star in 2022 was $23,519, 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 $94,076 for a family of four. However, Biscoe - Star contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Biscoe - Star is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Biscoe - Star home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Biscoe - Star, accounting for 43.90% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Biscoe - Star residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Biscoe - Star include English, German, Dutch, Scottish, and Irish.

In addition, Biscoe - Star has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.97%).

The most common language spoken in Biscoe - Star is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of American neighborhoods.

People

Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.

The Neighbors

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 Biscoe - Star are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% 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, 46.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.8%), and 6.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (41.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Biscoe - Star, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (3.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 16.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (15.6%) . 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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