Spruce Pine’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Spruce Pine 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. Spruce Pine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Spruce Pine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Spruce Pine may be for you.
One of the benefits of Spruce Pine is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.85 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, Spruce Pine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Spruce Pine who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.99% of the adults in Spruce Pine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Spruce Pine in 2018 was $27,056, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,224 for a family of four. However, Spruce Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Spruce Pine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Spruce Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spruce Pine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Spruce Pine also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.54% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spruce Pine include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Spruce Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
