About Catawba

Catawba is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 696 people and just one neighborhood, Catawba is the 400th largest community in North Carolina.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Catawba is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.5% of the Catawba workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Catawba is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Catawba who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.85%), sales jobs (8.75%), and management occupations (5.04%).

Catawba is a very car-oriented town. 99.19% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Catawba 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. Catawba 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, Catawba does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Catawba Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Catawba rank slightly lower than the national average. 12.05% of adults 25 and older in Catawba have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Catawba in 2000 was $20,933, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,732 for a family of four.

Catawba is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Catawba home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Catawba is White, followed by African-American. Catawba also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.92% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Catawba include German, English, Scotch-Irish, and Irish.

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