Belmont is a somewhat small city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 8,713 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Belmont is the 116th largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some cities, Belmont isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Belmont are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Belmont is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belmont who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.62%), sales jobs (8.25%), and management occupations (7.04%).

Also of interest is that Belmont has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Belmont is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Belmont isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.02% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Belmont is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Belmont Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Belmont is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 22.05% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Belmont in 2000 was $20,065, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,260 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Belmont is English.