Overall, Bakersville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.11 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, Bakersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Bakersville, just 8.32% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bakersville in 2022 was $33,834, 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 $135,336 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, Irish, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
