About Granite Quarry

Granite Quarry is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,166 people and just one neighborhood, Granite Quarry is the 296th largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Granite Quarry is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Granite Quarry is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Granite Quarry who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.45%), sales jobs (12.52%), and management occupations (8.23%).

Granite Quarry is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Granite Quarry 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. 99.33% 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Granite Quarry doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Granite Quarry Information and Demographics

The education level of Granite Quarry citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 18.54% of adults in Granite Quarry have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Granite Quarry in 2000 was $18,633, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $74,532 for a family of four.

The people who call Granite Quarry home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Granite Quarry is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Granite Quarry include German, Irish, English, and Scotch-Irish.

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