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Albertson, NC

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Overview


Albertson is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,836 people and just one neighborhood, Albertson is the 258th largest community in North Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Albertson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 57.39% of the Albertson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Albertson is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Albertson who work in maintenance occupations (10.59%), farm management occupations (8.26%), and management occupations (8.01%).

In addition, many people in Albertson have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Albertson has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Albertson a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Albertson is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Albertson, the average commute to work is 36.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Albertson has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.29% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Albertson in 2022 was $25,037, 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 $100,148 for a family of four. However, Albertson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Albertson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Albertson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Albertson, accounting for 55.55% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Albertson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Albertson include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and African.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Albertson's cultural character, accounting for 41.01% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Albertson is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and French Creole.

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

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 53.9% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.7% of American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, it used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 8.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 5.3% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of America's neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 22.9% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

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 neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.3% 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.

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 Albertson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 49.1% 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 19.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.1%), and 8.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 52.0% of households. Some people also speak English (46.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Albertson, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 41.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (22.9%) . 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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