Bunn is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 361 people and just one neighborhood, Bunn is the 525th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bunn is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bunn is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bunn who work in office and administrative support (20.16%), management occupations (17.70%), and sales jobs (12.35%).
Of important note, Bunn is also a town of artists. Bunn has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bunn’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.14% 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.
The percentage of adults in Bunn who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.11% of the adults in Bunn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bunn in 2022 was $23,110, 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 $92,440 for a family of four.
Bunn is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bunn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bunn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bunn include English, Italian, German, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Bunn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Italian.
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.
Of particular note, 13.7% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Bunn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.8% of U.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, 32.7% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Bunn, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (88.7%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.