Overview Vandemere - Hobucken is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,107 people and just one neighborhood, Vandemere - Hobucken is the 395th largest community in North Carolina. Occupations and Workforce Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Vandemere - Hobucken is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.99% of the Vandemere - Hobucken workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Vandemere - Hobucken is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Vandemere - Hobucken who work in healthcare suport services (16.15%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.87%), and office and administrative support (6.83%). Setting & Lifestyle 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!) Vandemere - Hobucken 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. Vandemere - Hobucken has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vandemere - Hobucken than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vandemere - Hobucken may be for you. Vandemere - Hobucken is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. Being a small town, Vandemere - Hobucken does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work. Vandemere - Hobucken Demographics The citizens of Vandemere - Hobucken are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.69% of adults in Vandemere - Hobucken have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Vandemere - Hobucken in 2022 was $23,293, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,172 for a family of four. However, Vandemere - Hobucken contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Vandemere - Hobucken is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Vandemere - Hobucken home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vandemere - Hobucken residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Vandemere - Hobucken include English, Irish, German, Polish, and Russian. The most common language spoken in Vandemere - Hobucken is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.