Greenville, NC real estate and demographic information

About Greenville

Greenville is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 86,017 people and 22 constituent neighborhoods, Greenville is the tenth largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some cities, Greenville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Greenville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Greenville is a city of professionals, sales and office workers and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenville who work in office and administrative support (12.69%), sales jobs (12.17%) and healthcare (9.46%).

In addition, Greenville is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Greenville culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Greenville really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Greenville every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Greenville. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Greenville benefits directly from this.

One of the benefits of Greenville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.59 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.

Greenville Information and Demographics

The citizens of Greenville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.09% of adults in Greenville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Greenville in 2010 was $22,184, 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 $88,736 for a family of four. However, Greenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Greenville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.25% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Greenville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenville include English, Irish, German, Italian and Scots-Irish.

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