Mayodan is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,452 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mayodan is the 279th largest community in North Carolina.When you are in Mayodan, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.25% of Mayodan’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mayodan is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mayodan who work in office and administrative support (14.05%), management occupations (8.66%), and sales jobs (8.47%). Also of interest is that Mayodan has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Mayodan 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. Mayodan has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mayodan than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mayodan may be for you. One downside of living in Mayodan is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mayodan, the average commute to work is 31.55 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. The citizens of Mayodan are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.07% of adults in Mayodan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Mayodan in 2022 was $28,371, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,484 for a family of four. However, Mayodan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mayodan is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mayodan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mayodan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mayodan include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European. The most common language spoken in Mayodan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.
