Bakersville is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 453 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bakersville is the 493rd largest community in North Carolina.Bakersville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bakersville is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bakersville who work in healthcare (28.52%), healthcare suport services (8.45%), and teaching (8.45%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.92% 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. Bakersville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. 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!) Bakersville 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. Bakersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bakersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bakersville may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.63 minutes getting to work every day. As is often the case in a small town, Bakersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Bakersville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.67% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Bakersville in 2022 was $39,150, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,600 for a family of four. However, Bakersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Bakersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bakersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bakersville include Scots-Irish, English, German, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
