Black Mountain, NC
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None of the households in Black Mountain, NC reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
Most people in Black Mountain, NC drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 20.9 minutes. The average car ownership in Black Mountain, NC was 2 cars per household.
The economy of Black Mountain, NC employs 3.28k people. The largest industries in Black Mountain, NC are , and the highest paying industries are Finance & Insurance ($121,818), Public Administration ($95,469), and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($88,194).
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Black Mountain, NC, are Sales & Related Occupations (351 people), Management Occupations (330 people), and Office & Administrative Support Occupations (282 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Black Mountain, NC.
This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in North Carolina (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most recent data point uses Advance State Claims data, which can be revised in subsequent weeks.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Black Mountain, NC, are . This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Black Mountain, NC, though some of these residents may live in Black Mountain, NC and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
As of February 2023, there are 4.86M people employed in North Carolina. This represents a 3.04% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.
Right after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, during April 2020, a general dip can be seen across industry sectors, resulting in an overall decline in employment by 10.9%.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in North Carolina.
The graph shows the evolution of awarded degrees by degrees. Under the paragraphs, the average number of awarded degrees by university in each degree is shown.
In 2022, 0.944% of men over 25 years of age had not completed any academic degree (no schooling), while 0.805% of women were in the same situation.
This visualization shows the gender distribution of the population according to the academic level reached.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population in 2022 were High School or Equivalent (2.16M), Some college (1.84M), and Bachelors Degree (1.63M).
This visualization illustrates the percentage distribution of the population according to the highest educational level reached. You can filter the data by race by using the selector above.
People in Black Mountain, NC have an average commute time of 20.9 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Black Mountain, NC is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
This chart shows the percentage of owner in Black Mountain, NC compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
The following map shows all of the places in Black Mountain, NC colored by their Median Household Income (N/A).
The following chart displays the households in Black Mountain, NC distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the N/A range.
In 2022, the income inequality in North Carolina was 0.47 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.0732% decline from 2021 to 2022, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for North Carolina was lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in North Carolina in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in North Carolina across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2023, 72.5% of workers in Black Mountain, NC drove alone to work, followed by those who worked at home (17%) and those who carpooled to work (7.29%).
The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.
Using averages, employees in Black Mountain, NC have a shorter commute time (20.9 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.6 minutes). Additionally, 3.28% of the workforce in Black Mountain, NC have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Black Mountain, NC compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Black Mountain, NC distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Black Mountain, NC have 2 cars.
N/A% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Black Mountain, NC (N/A out of N/A people) live below the poverty line, a number that is approximately the same as the national average of 12.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are N/A N/A, followed by N/A N/A and then N/A N/A.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Black Mountain, NC is false, followed by false and false.
The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.
N/A% of the population of Black Mountain, NC has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans.
In N/A, insured persons according to age ranges were distributed in .
By gender, of the total number of insured persons, N/A were men and N/A were women.
The following chart shows the number of people with health coverage by gender.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Black Mountain, NC changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
