Black Creek is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 690 people and just one neighborhood, Black Creek is the 447th largest community in North Carolina.
Black Creek is a blue-collar town, with 37.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Black Creek is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Black Creek who work in office and administrative support (17.38%), business and financial occupations (11.11%), and sales jobs (6.84%).
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, Black Creek is worth considering.
One downside of living in Black Creek is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Black Creek, the average commute to work is 31.02 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Black Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Black Creek have a very low rate of college education: just 7.21% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Black Creek in 2022 was $25,883, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,532 for a family of four. However, Black Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Black Creek is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Black Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Black Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Black Creek include English, European, Irish, Italian, and Jamaican.
The most common language spoken in Black Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.7% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Black Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.9% 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 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.5%).
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 Black Creek, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (11.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
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 neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.