About Elk Park

Elk Park is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,548 people and just one neighborhood, Elk Park is the 263rd largest community in North Carolina.

When you are in Elk Park, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.6% of Elk Park's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Elk Park is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elk Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (9.52%), building maintenance and grounds keeping (7.28%), and sales jobs (7.10%).

Elk Park is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Elk Park 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. 98.91% 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.

Elk Park 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.

Elk Park Information and Demographics

In Elk Park, just 9.02% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Elk Park in 2000 was $12,176, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $48,704 for a family of four.

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

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