Biscoe - Star is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,427 people and just one neighborhood, Biscoe - Star is the 187th largest community in North Carolina.
When you are in Biscoe - Star, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.85% of Biscoe - Star’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Biscoe - Star is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Biscoe - Star who work in sales jobs (9.89%), food service (9.59%), and healthcare (7.90%).
Being a small town, Biscoe - Star does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Biscoe - Star is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.91% of adults 25 and older in Biscoe - Star have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Biscoe - Star in 2022 was $23,519, 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 $94,076 for a family of four. However, Biscoe - Star contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Biscoe - Star is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Biscoe - Star 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 Biscoe - Star, accounting for 43.90% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Biscoe - Star residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Biscoe - Star include English, German, Dutch, Scottish, and Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Biscoe - Star's cultural character, accounting for 15.97% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Biscoe - Star is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
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.
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 46.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of American neighborhoods.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 17.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
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 Biscoe - Star are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 46.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.8%), and 6.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (41.2%).
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 Biscoe - Star, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (3.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 16.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (33.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (15.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.