Pilot Mountain is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,431 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pilot Mountain is the 358th largest community in North Carolina.Pilot Mountain is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pilot Mountain is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pilot Mountain who work in office and administrative support (22.05%), sales jobs (11.53%), and food service (8.24%). Being a small town, Pilot Mountain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Pilot Mountain citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.74% of adults in Pilot Mountain have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Pilot Mountain in 2022 was $33,276, 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 $133,104 for a family of four. However, Pilot Mountain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Pilot Mountain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pilot Mountain residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pilot Mountain include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Pilot Mountain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Spanish.
