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Sims, NC

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Overview


Sims is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 338 people and just one neighborhood, Sims is the 538th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Sims was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Sims economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Sims, where the median household income is $73,667.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Sims isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sims are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sims is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sims who work in healthcare (14.84%), management occupations (10.99%), and sales jobs (9.34%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Sims is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Sims a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Sims has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Sims’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Sims is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sims, the average commute to work is 32.77 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Sims does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Sims are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.86% of adults in Sims having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sims in 2022 was $30,102, 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 $120,408 for a family of four. However, Sims contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sims is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sims home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sims residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sims also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.14% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sims include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Dutch.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Sims, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all American neighborhoods.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of North Carolina. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

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 Sims are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 34.3% 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 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.3%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Sims, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.

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 (28.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (94.2%) 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.


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