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!) Mount Gilead 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. Mount Gilead has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Gilead than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Gilead may be for you.
Mount Gilead 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.
In terms of college education, Mount Gilead is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.26% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Mount Gilead in 2022 was $29,338, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,352 for a family of four. However, Mount Gilead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Gilead is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Gilead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Gilead residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Gilead include German, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Swedish.
In addition, Mount Gilead has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.89%).
The most common language spoken in Mount Gilead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Laotian.
