Angier is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 8,284 people and six associated neighborhoods, Angier is the 150th largest community in North Carolina. Angier has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Angier, where the median household income is $52,214.00.
Also of interest is that Angier has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.63% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
One downside of living in Angier is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Angier, the average commute to work is 35.96 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Angier does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Angier is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.97% of adults in Angier have a college degree.
The per capita income in Angier in 2022 was $36,205, 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 $144,820 for a family of four. However, Angier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Angier is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Angier home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Angier residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Angier also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.21% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Angier include Irish, English, German, British, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Angier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.