About Surf City

Surf City is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,438 people and just one neighborhood, Surf City is the 340th largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some towns , Surf City isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Surf City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Surf City is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Surf City who work in sales jobs (14.90%), office and administrative support jobs (11.62%), and management occupations (9.84%).

Surf City is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Surf City, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.

Surf City 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.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Surf City are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Surf City is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Surf City Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Surf City 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: 28.69% of adults in Surf City have a college degree.

The per capita income in Surf City in 2000 was $25,242, 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 $100,968 for a family of four.

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

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