Elizabethtown is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,290 people and two associated neighborhoods, Elizabethtown is the 238th largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elizabethtown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.82% of the Elizabethtown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elizabethtown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Elizabethtown who work in office and administrative support (12.32%), maintenance occupations (10.16%), and management occupations (9.60%). Also of interest is that Elizabethtown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Elizabethtown 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. Elizabethtown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Elizabethtown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Elizabethtown may be for you. As is often the case in a small town, Elizabethtown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Elizabethtown is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.25% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Elizabethtown in 2022 was $21,227, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,908 for a family of four. Elizabethtown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.Elizabethtown is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Elizabethtown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elizabethtown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elizabethtown include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Elizabethtown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
