Durham is a relatively large city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 187,183 people and 54 constituent neighborhoods, Durham is the fourth largest community in North Carolina.

Durham is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Durham is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Durham who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.21%), management occupations (9.17%), and sales jobs (8.63%).

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

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Durham really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Durham is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Durham more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Durham's character and quality of life.

Durham Information and Demographics

The citizens of Durham are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 41.75% of adults in Durham have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Durham in 2000 was $22,526, 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 $90,104 for a family of four.

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

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