Spruce Pine is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,191 people and two associated neighborhoods, Spruce Pine is the 296th largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some towns, Spruce Pine isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Spruce Pine are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Spruce Pine is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spruce Pine who work in office and administrative support (12.20%), sales jobs (8.14%), and healthcare (6.91%). Also of interest is that Spruce Pine has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Overall, Spruce Pine’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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, Spruce Pine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spruce Pine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Spruce Pine 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 percentage of adults in Spruce Pine who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.13% of the adults in Spruce Pine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Spruce Pine in 2022 was $29,134, 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 $116,536 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 11.63% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spruce Pine include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Spruce Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
