About Westport

Westport is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,801 people and just one neighborhood, Westport is the 320th largest community in North Carolina.

Westport is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.06% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Westport is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Westport who work in management occupations (17.06%), sales jobs (15.25%), and business and financial occupations (11.51%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 7.46% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One downside of living in Westport, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.56 minutes every day commuting to work.

Westport 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 Westport, 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, Westport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Westport Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Westport, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Westport is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 47.71% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Westport in 2000 was $34,189, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,756 for a family of four. However, Westport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Westport is English.