Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Greensboro really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Greensboro 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 Greensboro more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Greensboro’s character and quality of life.
This makes Greensboro a good place to live for young professionals. With so many people in this demographic, Greensboro presents many opportunities for single professionals to enjoy themselves, socialize, and to create lasting relationships.
The population of Greensboro is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.48% of adults in Greensboro have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Greensboro in 2018 was $31,812, 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 $127,248 for a family of four. However, Greensboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Greensboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greensboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greensboro residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Greensboro include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Greensboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
