Caroleen is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 560 people and just one neighborhood, Caroleen is the 472nd largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Caroleen, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.45% of Caroleen’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Caroleen is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Caroleen who work in office and administrative support (45.90%), art, media, and design (7.65%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Of important note, Caroleen is also a town of artists. Caroleen has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Caroleen’s character.
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, Caroleen has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Caroleen a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Caroleen spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.71 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Caroleen is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Caroleen isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Caroleen is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Caroleen are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.04% of adults in Caroleen have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Caroleen in 2022 was $29,038, 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 $116,152 for a family of four. However, Caroleen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Caroleen is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Caroleen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Caroleen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Caroleen include English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Caroleen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 Caroleen, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.1% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
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 Caroleen are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.9% 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 neighborhood, 55.8% 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 15.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.4%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).
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 Caroleen, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (4.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 (51.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.