Hays is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,595 people and two associated neighborhoods, Hays is the 337th largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hays is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.63% of the Hays workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hays is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hays who work in office and administrative support (17.24%), healthcare (8.15%), and healthcare suport services (5.96%). Because of many things, Hays is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Hays a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Hays has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Hays’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country. 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!) Hays 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. Hays has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hays than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hays may be for you. Being a small town, Hays does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Hays rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.92% of adults 25 and older in Hays have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Hays in 2022 was $35,781, 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 $143,124 for a family of four. However, Hays contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hays is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hays home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hays residents report their race to be White. Hays also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.71% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hays include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Hays is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
