Lumber Bridge is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 82 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lumber Bridge is the 578th largest community in North Carolina.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Lumber Bridge has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Lumber Bridge has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lumber Bridge than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lumber Bridge may be for you.
One of the benefits of Lumber Bridge is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.02 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Lumber Bridge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Lumber Bridge, just 11.32% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lumber Bridge in 2018 was $30,459, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,836 for a family of four. However, Lumber Bridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lumber Bridge is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lumber Bridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lumber Bridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lumber Bridge include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Lumber Bridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.