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Lake Park, NC

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Overview


Lake Park is a very small village located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,504 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Park is the 240th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Lake Park is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 85.94% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lake Park is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Park who work in office and administrative support (17.39%), sales jobs (12.58%), and management occupations (10.30%).

Also of interest is that Lake Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.76% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Lake Park is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Lake Park’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Lake Park, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.44 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small village, Lake Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Lake Park ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Lake Park, 42.46% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Lake Park in 2022 was $34,863, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,452 for a family of four. However, Lake Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lake Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lake Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lake Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.45% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Park include English, German, Irish, Russian, and European.

In addition, Lake Park has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.48%).

The most common language spoken in Lake Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 1.6% have Romanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Lake Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.0% 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, 31.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.2%), and 20.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lake Park, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report South American roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (6.4%), among others. In addition, 14.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (30.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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