Whitsett is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 604 people and two associated neighborhoods, Whitsett is the 468th largest community in North Carolina.

Also of interest is that Whitsett has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 14.23% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) Whitsett 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. Whitsett has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Whitsett than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Whitsett may be for you.

One downside of living in Whitsett is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Whitsett, the average commute to work is 30.28 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Whitsett does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The population of Whitsett overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Whitsett, 23.24% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Whitsett in 2022 was $45,488, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $181,952 for a family of four. However, Whitsett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Whitsett is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Whitsett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whitsett residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Whitsett also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.99% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Whitsett include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Whitsett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.