About Biltmore Forest

Biltmore Forest is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,440 people and just one neighborhood, Biltmore Forest is the 338th largest community in North Carolina.

Biltmore Forest is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 96.17% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Biltmore Forest is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Biltmore Forest who work in healthcare (24.87%), management occupations (17.39%), and sales jobs (13.22%).

Of important note, Biltmore Forest is also a town of artists. Biltmore Forest has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Biltmore Forest's character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.91% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Biltmore Forest is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Biltmore Forest spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.59 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Biltmore Forest is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Biltmore Forest 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. 98.09% 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.

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

Biltmore Forest Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Biltmore Forest, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Biltmore Forest is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 73.89% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Biltmore Forest in 2000 was $85,044, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $340,176 for a family of four. However, Biltmore Forest contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Biltmore Forest home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Biltmore Forest is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Biltmore Forest include English, German, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Irish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Biltmore Forest is English.