Jonesville is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,326 people and just one neighborhood, Jonesville is the 285th largest community in North Carolina.
Jonesville is a blue-collar town, with 44.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Jonesville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jonesville who work in sales jobs (13.49%), food service (9.91%), and office and administrative support (9.54%).
As is often the case in a small town, Jonesville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Jonesville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.58% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Jonesville in 2022 was $21,180, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,720 for a family of four.
Jonesville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jonesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jonesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Jonesville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.64% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Jonesville include English, Irish, German, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Jonesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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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 Jonesville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.2% 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, 34.2% 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 34.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Jonesville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 (43.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.