Glen Alpine is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,525 people and just one neighborhood, Glen Alpine is the 346th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Glen Alpine isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Glen Alpine are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glen Alpine is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen Alpine who work in management occupations (9.24%), sales jobs (8.59%), and healthcare (8.37%).
Of important note, Glen Alpine is also a town of artists. Glen Alpine has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Glen Alpine’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Glen Alpine telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.48% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The population of Glen Alpine overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Glen Alpine, 24.37% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Glen Alpine in 2022 was $26,927, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,708 for a family of four. However, Glen Alpine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Glen Alpine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Glen Alpine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen Alpine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Glen Alpine include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Slavic.
The most common language spoken in Glen Alpine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Glen Alpine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.9% 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, 33.0% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.2%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households.
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 Glen Alpine, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (49.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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.