Dudley is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 826 people and three associated neighborhoods, Dudley is the 423rd largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dudley is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.69% of the Dudley workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dudley is a town of managers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Dudley who work in business and financial occupations (20.52%), management occupations (14.31%), and farm management occupations (12.28%). In addition, many people in Dudley have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 22.08% 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. 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, Dudley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dudley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. As is often the case in a small town, Dudley doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The education level of Dudley citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.67% of adults 25 and older in Dudley have a college degree. The per capita income in Dudley in 2022 was $22,211, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,844 for a family of four. However, Dudley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dudley also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.25% of its population below the federal poverty line.Dudley is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dudley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Dudley, accounting for 55.57% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Dudley residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Dudley include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian. Dudley also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.32%. The most common language spoken in Dudley is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
