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Moravian Falls, NC

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Overview


Moravian Falls is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,712 people and just one neighborhood, Moravian Falls is the 321st largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Moravian Falls was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Moravian Falls economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Moravian Falls, where the median household income is $52,217.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Moravian Falls isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Moravian Falls are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Moravian Falls is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moravian Falls who work in management occupations (35.73%), sales jobs (21.88%), and teaching (6.93%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.42% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

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

Demographics

The education level of Moravian Falls citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.48% of adults in Moravian Falls have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Moravian Falls in 2022 was $33,471, 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 $133,884 for a family of four. However, Moravian Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Moravian Falls is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moravian Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moravian Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Moravian Falls also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.76% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Moravian Falls include English, German, Swedish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Moravian Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Persian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Moravian Falls is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NC, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.7% of the neighborhoods in North Carolina. If you are considering retiring to North Carolina, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 95.8% 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 Moravian Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 38.5% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Moravian Falls, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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