Lewiston Woodville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 407 people and just one neighborhood, Lewiston Woodville is the 500th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Lewiston Woodville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.29% of Lewiston Woodville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lewiston Woodville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lewiston Woodville who work in office and administrative support (18.71%), management occupations (12.23%), and farm management occupations (11.51%).
In addition, many people in Lewiston Woodville have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lewiston Woodville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lewiston Woodville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lewiston Woodville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.10 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Lewiston Woodville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Lewiston Woodville citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.90% of adults in Lewiston Woodville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lewiston Woodville in 2022 was $29,522, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,088 for a family of four. However, Lewiston Woodville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lewiston Woodville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lewiston Woodville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lewiston Woodville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Lewiston Woodville include German, English, Scottish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lewiston Woodville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.5% 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.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (52.6%) than found in 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
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 Lewiston Woodville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 52.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.1% 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, 39.7% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Lewiston Woodville, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (2.5%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (2.5%), and residents who report English roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.4%).
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 (46.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.8%) 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.