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Greenville, NC
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Living in Greenville



Greenville is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 90,053 people and 28 associated neighborhoods, Greenville is the 12th largest community in North Carolina.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.66% 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.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Greenville really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Greenville 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 Greenville more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Greenville’s character and quality of life.

Not only is Greenville a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Greenville is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Greenville a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.10 minutes getting to work every day.

The education level of Greenville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 39.27% of adults in Greenville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Greenville in 2022 was $33,057, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,228 for a family of four. However, Greenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Greenville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenville include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Greenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.