About Mulberry

Mulberry is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,168 people and just one neighborhood, Mulberry is the 294th largest community in North Carolina.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mulberry is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.2% of the Mulberry workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Mulberry is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mulberry who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.15%), teaching (8.56%), and sales jobs (8.37%).

Also of interest is that Mulberry has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Mulberry is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Mulberry, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Mulberry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Mulberry Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Mulberry is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 14.96%: 15.93% of adults 25 and older in Mulberry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mulberry in 2000 was $18,490, 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 $73,960 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Mulberry is English.