Moncure is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 780 people and just one neighborhood, Moncure is the 434th largest community in North Carolina.
Moncure home prices are not only among the most expensive in North Carolina, but Moncure real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Moncure is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.26% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Moncure is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Moncure who work in maintenance occupations (26.78%), personal care services (12.78%), and business and financial occupations (12.04%).
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!) Moncure 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. Moncure has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Moncure than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Moncure may be for you.
In Moncure, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.07 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Moncure 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 percentage of people in Moncure with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Moncure in 2022 was $22,493, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,972 for a family of four. However, Moncure contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Moncure is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moncure home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moncure residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moncure include Irish, English, Finnish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Moncure is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Other Asian languages.
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.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.1% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in North Carolina, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in North Carolina.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Moncure are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.7% of America'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, 50.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.0%), and 9.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.2%).
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 Moncure, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report German roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (62.8%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.