Bakersville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 453 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bakersville is the 493rd largest community in North Carolina.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.92% 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.

Bakersville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Bakersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bakersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One of the benefits of Bakersville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.63 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.

Being a small town, Bakersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The percentage of people in Bakersville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.67% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bakersville in 2022 was $39,150, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,600 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 Italian.

The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.