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.
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 17.11 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Bakersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Bakersville have a very low rate of college education: just 8.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
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.
