Stanfield is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,638 people and just one neighborhood, Stanfield is the 339th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Stanfield was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Stanfield economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Stanfield, where the median household income is $79,946.00.
Unlike some towns, Stanfield isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Stanfield are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stanfield is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Stanfield who work in sales jobs (18.12%), office and administrative support (10.74%), and management occupations (10.60%).
Because of many things, Stanfield is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Stanfield 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, Stanfield has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Stanfield’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
One downside of living in Stanfield, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.83 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Stanfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Stanfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.34% of adults in Stanfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Stanfield in 2022 was $39,027, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,108 for a family of four. However, Stanfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Stanfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stanfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stanfield include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Stanfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Stanfield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of North Carolina. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Stanfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.8% 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, 34.0% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.3%), and 8.6% 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 81.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Stanfield, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.1%), among others. In addition, 11.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.