Urban: Generally between 5,000 and 10,000 people per square mile, these are full built up places although not among the most dense in the country. The look and feel of the neighborhood, from high rises on the coast, to rural farmlands.ĭensely Urban: With densities above 10,000 people per square mile these are some of the densest neighborhoods in the nation.
(Note that smaller lakes are not included, or neighborhoods that have little shoreline on a lake, relative to the size of the entire neighborhood).įarms: Agricultural land uses are a significant part of the neighborhood and contribute to its character. These are lakes large enough to include recreation and scenic areas. Lakefront: The neighborhood includes shoreline on a significant body of freshwater. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.Ĭoastal: Neighborhoods on the ocean or tidally influenced rivers. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.82% of the workforce. There are especially a lot of people living in McLeansville who work in business and financial occupations (19.36%), management occupations (18.63%), and office and administrative support (11.76%). Overall, McLeansville is a town of managers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in McLeansville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Unlike some towns, McLeansville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. If there was not a name available, we named the census tract by the largest street intersection in the census tract (e.g., Worcester, MA (Lincoln St/Plantation St) Then we named each census tract to the local colloquially recognized neighborhood name for that spot (e.g., Boston, MA (Dorchester).
Since census tracts are subdivisions of a county, we did a spatial overlay of the census tracts onto city and town boundaries using a geographic information system to properly assign each census tract to its appropriate city or town. In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas.
Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. This is the most fine-grained area for which detailed information is made available from the government, to protect the individual privacy of each of us. Census tracts usually have 4,000 persons, but can range between 1,500 and 8,000 persons. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). NeighborhoodScout® uses the official government designation for neighborhoods - the census tract.Ĭensus tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S.
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