Bailey is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 588 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bailey is the 471st largest community in North Carolina.Bailey is a blue-collar town, with 40.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bailey is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bailey who work in office and administrative support (12.26%), healthcare (10.97%), and healthcare suport services (8.39%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.38% 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. 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, Bailey has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bailey a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Bailey does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Bailey are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.84% of adults in Bailey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Bailey in 2022 was $24,979, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,916 for a family of four. However, Bailey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bailey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bailey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bailey residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bailey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 26.30% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bailey include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Bailey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
