About Bear Creek

Bear Creek is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,836 people and just one neighborhood, Bear Creek is the 210th largest community in North Carolina.

Bear Creek is a blue-collar town, with 42.0% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Bear Creek is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bear Creek who work in office and administrative support jobs (10.84%), sales jobs (9.06%), and healthcare (7.28%).

Bear Creek is a very car-oriented town. 97.08% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Bear Creek is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Bear Creek has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Bear Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Bear Creek Information and Demographics

The citizens of Bear Creek are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.53% of adults in Bear Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bear Creek in 2000 was $18,192, 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 $72,768 for a family of four.

Bear Creek is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bear Creek home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bear Creek is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bear Creek include English, Irish, German, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Bear Creek is English. Some people also speak Spanish.