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.

A relatively large number of people in Bakersville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.92% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

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.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Bakersville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.63 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Bakersville 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 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.