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.

A relatively large number of people in Biltmore Forest telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.91% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.59 minutes getting to work every day.

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.

Biltmore Forest 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.

Biltmore Forest Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Biltmore Forest is a pretty powerful place. 73.89% of the adults in Biltmore Forest have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

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.