Turkey is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 214 people and just one neighborhood, Turkey is the 552nd largest community in North Carolina.
Turkey is a blue-collar town, with 74.10% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Turkey is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Turkey who work in office and administrative support (14.39%), management occupations (10.07%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (1.44%).
Overall, Turkey’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Turkey 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. Turkey has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Turkey than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Turkey may be for you.
One downside of living in Turkey, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.17 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Turkey doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Turkey ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.20% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Turkey in 2022 was $17,130, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,520 for a family of four.
Turkey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Turkey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Turkey residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Turkey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.46% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Turkey include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Turkey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.4% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Furthermore, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 92.7% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.6% 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.
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 Turkey are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.3% 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, 45.1% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 8.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.6%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Turkey, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (8.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.4%).
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.0%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.