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, Elizabethtown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Elizabethtown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Elizabethtown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Elizabethtown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.25% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Elizabethtown in 2022 was $21,227, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,908 for a family of four. Elizabethtown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Elizabethtown is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Elizabethtown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elizabethtown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elizabethtown include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Elizabethtown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
