Boiling Spring Lakes is a somewhat small coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 6,400 people and two associated neighborhoods, Boiling Spring Lakes is the 141st largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Boiling Spring Lakes is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Boiling Spring Lakes is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boiling Spring Lakes who work in sales jobs (10.44%), maintenance occupations (9.92%), and office and administrative support (9.48%). A relatively large number of people in Boiling Spring Lakes telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.49% 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. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Boiling Spring Lakes 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. Boiling Spring Lakes has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Boiling Spring Lakes than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Boiling Spring Lakes may be for you. One of the nice things about Boiling Spring Lakes is that it is nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities. Being a small city, Boiling Spring Lakes does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Boiling Spring Lakes are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.72% of adults in Boiling Spring Lakes have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Boiling Spring Lakes in 2022 was $33,068, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,272 for a family of four. However, Boiling Spring Lakes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Boiling Spring Lakes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boiling Spring Lakes residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boiling Spring Lakes include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Boiling Spring Lakes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
