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.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bailey is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.00% of the Bailey workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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. 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!) Bailey 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. Bailey has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bailey than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bailey may be for you. 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.
