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Marshall, NC
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Marshall profile


Living in Marshall



Marshall is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 796 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Marshall is the 435th largest community in North Carolina.

Marshall is a military town: the armed forces employs 6.51% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Administration and Retail are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 15.95% and 13.95% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Also of interest is that Marshall has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Marshall telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 19.82% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Marshall has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Marshall a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Marshall 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.

The education level of Marshall citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.27% of adults in Marshall have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Marshall in 2018 was $28,965, 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 $115,860 for a family of four. However, Marshall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Marshall is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Marshall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marshall residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Marshall include English, German, Irish, Scandinavian, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Marshall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.