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Ellerbe, NC

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Overview


Ellerbe is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 852 people and just one neighborhood, Ellerbe is the 418th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Ellerbe is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ellerbe is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellerbe who work in sales jobs (21.11%), law enforcement and fire fighting (11.94%), and office and administrative support (8.96%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Ellerbe, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Ellerbe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Ellerbe are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.21% of adults in Ellerbe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Ellerbe in 2022 was $23,394, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,576 for a family of four. However, Ellerbe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ellerbe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ellerbe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellerbe residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Ellerbe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.67% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ellerbe include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Ellerbe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.8% of America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ellerbe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% 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, 43.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Ellerbe, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report Asian roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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