About Biscoe

Biscoe is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,846 people and just one neighborhood, Biscoe is the 209th largest community in North Carolina.

When you are in Biscoe, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.6% of Biscoe's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Biscoe is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Biscoe who work in office and administrative support jobs (9.38%), management occupations (5.44%), and teaching (4.78%).

One of the benefits of Biscoe is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.32 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Biscoe is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Biscoe 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. 96.52% 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, Biscoe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Biscoe Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Biscoe with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 11.76% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Biscoe in 2000 was $15,783, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $63,132 for a family of four.

Biscoe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Biscoe home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Biscoe is White, followed by African-American. Biscoe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.08% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Biscoe include Scotch-Irish, English, and African.

In addition, Biscoe has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (18.95%).

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