Chip / Harrisville median real estate price is $143,812, which is less expensive than 90.5% of North Carolina neighborhoods and 88.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Chip / Harrisville is currently $1,427, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 75.7% of North Carolina neighborhoods.
Chip / Harrisville is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Candor, North Carolina.
Chip / Harrisville real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Chip / Harrisville has a 14.1% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 75.6% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Candor, the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 96.4% of commuters who live in the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 47.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 23 residents per square mile, Chip / Harrisville is less crowded than 94.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 22.3% have English ancestry.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood. More residents of the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Chip / Harrisville neighborhood in Candor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.0% 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 Chip / Harrisville neighborhood, 32.9% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.0%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Chip / Harrisville neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.3%).
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 Chip / Harrisville neighborhood in Candor, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
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 Chip / Harrisville neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (64.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (96.4%) 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.