About Oakboro

Oakboro is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,209 people and just one neighborhood, Oakboro is the 362nd largest community in North Carolina.

Oakboro is a blue-collar town, with 42.5% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Oakboro is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakboro who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.64%), sales jobs (6.97%), and management occupations (6.34%).

In Oakboro, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.23 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Oakboro 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 Oakboro, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.06% 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, Oakboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Oakboro Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Oakboro with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 12.84% of adults in Oakboro have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Oakboro in 2000 was $18,079, 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 $72,316 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Oakboro is English.