Wilmington, NC
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None of the households in Wilmington, 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 Wilmington, NC drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 18.6 minutes. The average car ownership in Wilmington, NC was 2 cars per household.
The economy of Wilmington, NC employs 60.4k people. The largest industries in Wilmington, NC are Health Care & Social Assistance (8,502 people), Retail Trade (7,875 people), and Accommodation & Food Services (6,675 people), and the highest paying industries are .
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Wilmington, NC, are . This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Wilmington, 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 Wilmington, NC, are Health Care & Social Assistance (8,502 people), Retail Trade (7,875 people), and Accommodation & Food Services (6,675 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Wilmington, NC, though some of these residents may live in Wilmington, 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.
In the 2020 presidential election, the popular vote in North Carolina went to Donald J. Trump with 49.9% of the vote. The runner-up was Joseph R Biden Jr. (48.6%), followed by Jo Jorgensen (0.881%).
Thom Tillis and Ted Budd are the senators currently representing the state of North Carolina. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
North Carolina is currently represented by 14 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
In the 2020 presidential election, the popular vote in North Carolina went to Donald J. Trump with 49.9% of the vote. The runner-up was Joseph R Biden Jr. (48.6%), followed by Jo Jorgensen (0.881%).
The following chart shows the popular vote results in North Carolina for each registered party from 1976 to 2020.
Thom Tillis and Ted Budd are the senators currently representing North Carolina.
In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
The following chart shows elected senators in North Carolina over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
North Carolina is currently represented by 14 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for North Carolina have changed over time starting in 2008.
In 2022, universities in Wilmington, NC awarded 7,862 degrees. The student population of Wilmington, NC in 2022 is skewed towards women, with 13,138 male students and 19,544 female students.
The median tuition cost in N/A for a public four year colleges is $4,443 for in-state students and $19,063 for out-of-state students.
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 N/A, N/A% of men over 25 years of age had not completed any academic degree (no schooling), while N/A% of women were in the same situation.
This visualization shows the gender distribution of the population according to the academic level reached.
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People in Wilmington, NC have an average commute time of 18.6 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Wilmington, 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 Wilmington, NC compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
The following map shows all of the places in Wilmington, NC colored by their Median Household Income (N/A).
The following chart displays the households in Wilmington, 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 N/A, the income inequality in N/A was N/A according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a N/A N/A from N/A to N/A, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat N/A even. The GINI for N/A was N/A than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed N/A evenly in N/A in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Wilmington, NC across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2022, 73.4% of workers in Wilmington, NC drove alone to work, followed by those who worked at home (14.7%) and those who carpooled to work (7.6%).
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 Wilmington, NC have a shorter commute time (18.6 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.7 minutes). Additionally, 1.61% of the workforce in Wilmington, NC have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Wilmington, NC compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Wilmington, NC distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Wilmington, NC have 2 cars.
17.8% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Wilmington, NC (20k out of 113k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.5%. 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 Wilmington, NC is White, followed by Black and Two Or More.
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 Wilmington, 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, 45% were men and 55% 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 Wilmington, NC changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
