About Lake Toxaway

Lake Toxaway is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,803 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Toxaway is the 319th largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some towns , Lake Toxaway isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lake Toxaway are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Toxaway is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Toxaway who work in sales jobs (12.65%), office and administrative support jobs (8.52%), and management occupations (8.13%).

Of important note, Lake Toxaway is also a town of artists. Lake Toxaway has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lake Toxaway's character.

Lake Toxaway is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

Lake Toxaway is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lake Toxaway 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. 100% 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, Lake Toxaway doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Lake Toxaway Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Lake Toxaway is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 25.72% of adults in Lake Toxaway have a college degree.

The per capita income in Lake Toxaway in 2000 was $24,601, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,404 for a family of four.

The people who call Lake Toxaway home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lake Toxaway is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Toxaway include German, English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, French, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Lake Toxaway is English.