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.Dudley is a blue-collar town, with 35.69% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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%). You will also find that a lot of people in Dudley work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 22.08% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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 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!) Dudley 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. Dudley has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dudley than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dudley may be for you. 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. In addition, Dudley has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (32.32%). The most common language spoken in Dudley is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
