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.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bakersville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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%). A relatively large number of people in Bakersville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.92% 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. Overall, Bakersville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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, Bakersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bakersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Bakersville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.63 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small town, Bakersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.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.
