About Eagle Springs

Eagle Springs is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,266 people and just one neighborhood, Eagle Springs is the 282nd largest community in North Carolina.

When you are in Eagle Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.0% of Eagle Springs's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Eagle Springs is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Eagle Springs who work in office and administrative support jobs (8.14%), healthcare (6.36%), and sales jobs (6.36%).

Another important characteristic of Eagle Springs is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Eagle Springs is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Eagle Springs 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. 97.45% 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, Eagle Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Eagle Springs Information and Demographics

In Eagle Springs, just 10.15% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Eagle Springs in 2000 was $13,552, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,208 for a family of four.

Eagle Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Eagle Springs home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Eagle Springs is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Eagle Springs include Scotch-Irish, German, and Irish.

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