Greenville is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 60,385 people and 11 constituent neighborhoods, Greenville is the 13th largest community in North Carolina.

Greenville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greenville is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenville who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.57%), sales jobs (13.72%), and teaching (9.02%).

Greenville is also a major college town with a large number of people who are 18 years or older and attending college. As is often the case in college towns, the many students that live in Greenville have a strong influence on the local culture and entertainment scene, which may seem dormant by comparison in the summer months when much of the student population is away. In the fall, the return of students has a reinvigorating effect on the community. Because colleges are lasting institutions, they have a stabilizing effect on the economy by providing direct local benefits such as jobs for faculty and staff and spending by students. Greenville's economy is one such example of this.

One of the nice things about Greenville is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.91 minutes getting to work every day.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Greenville use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Greenville's citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

Greenville Information and Demographics

The education level of Greenville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 38.37% of adults in Greenville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Greenville in 2000 was $18,476, 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 $73,904 for a family of four.

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

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