Pinnacle is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 786 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pinnacle is the 432nd largest community in North Carolina.
A relatively large number of people in Pinnacle telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.75% 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.
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!) Pinnacle 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. Pinnacle has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pinnacle than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pinnacle may be for you.
One downside of living in Pinnacle is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pinnacle, the average commute to work is 31.42 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Pinnacle 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 Pinnacle, just 8.79% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Pinnacle in 2022 was $17,895, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,580 for a family of four. Pinnacle also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.07% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Pinnacle is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pinnacle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinnacle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pinnacle also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.19% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pinnacle include English, German, Irish, Northern European, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Pinnacle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.