Bakersville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 455 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bakersville is the 493rd largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bakersville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bakersville is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bakersville who work in healthcare (37.44%), community and social services (6.85%), and teaching (6.39%). The overall crime rate in Bakersville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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!) Bakersville 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. Bakersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bakersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bakersville may be for you. One of the benefits of Bakersville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.75 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. Bakersville 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.In Bakersville, just 11.05% 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 Bakersville in 2022 was $38,353, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,412 for a family of four. However, Bakersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Bakersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bakersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bakersville include Scots-Irish, English, German, Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
