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Gloucester - Marshallberg, NC

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Overview


Gloucester - Marshallberg is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,753 people and just one neighborhood, Gloucester - Marshallberg is the 265th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Gloucester - Marshallberg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gloucester - Marshallberg is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gloucester - Marshallberg who work in management occupations (15.00%), sales jobs (9.31%), and maintenance occupations (7.41%).

Of important note, Gloucester - Marshallberg is also a town of artists. Gloucester - Marshallberg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Gloucester - Marshallberg’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.06% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gloucester - Marshallberg has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gloucester - Marshallberg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gloucester - Marshallberg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gloucester - Marshallberg may be for you.

Gloucester - Marshallberg is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

In Gloucester - Marshallberg, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.73 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Gloucester - Marshallberg 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.

Demographics

The education level of Gloucester - Marshallberg citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.02% of adults in Gloucester - Marshallberg have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Gloucester - Marshallberg in 2022 was $34,127, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,508 for a family of four. However, Gloucester - Marshallberg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gloucester - Marshallberg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gloucester - Marshallberg residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Gloucester - Marshallberg include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Gloucester - Marshallberg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 10.1% have Polish ancestry.

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 Gloucester - Marshallberg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.5% 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, 34.7% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.2%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Gloucester - Marshallberg, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (10.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (32.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (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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