Catawba is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 729 people and two associated neighborhoods, Catawba is the 445th largest community in North Carolina.When you are in Catawba, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.21% of Catawba’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Catawba is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Catawba who work in teaching (10.71%), office and administrative support (7.86%), and management occupations (6.07%). 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!) Catawba 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. Catawba has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Catawba than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Catawba may be for you. In Catawba, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Catawba does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Catawba is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.06% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Catawba in 2022 was $31,543, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,172 for a family of four. However, Catawba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Catawba is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Catawba home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Catawba residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Catawba include German, English, African, Welsh, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Catawba is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
