Bakersville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 455 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bakersville is the 493rd largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bakersville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bakersville is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bakersville who work in healthcare (42.02%), sales jobs (4.79%), and healthcare suport services (4.79%). Bakersville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bakersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bakersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Bakersville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.11 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Bakersville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Bakersville have a very low rate of college education: just 8.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Bakersville in 2022 was $33,834, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,336 for a family of four. However, Bakersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Bakersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bakersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bakersville include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
