Lenoir is a medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 18,280 people and 11 associated neighborhoods, Lenoir is the 56th largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some cities, Lenoir isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lenoir are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lenoir is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lenoir who work in office and administrative support (9.84%), management occupations (8.58%), and sales jobs (7.11%). Also of interest is that Lenoir has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.10% 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 city 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!) Lenoir 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. Lenoir has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lenoir than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lenoir may be for you. Being a small city, Lenoir does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Lenoir citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.21% of adults in Lenoir have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Lenoir in 2022 was $29,565, 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 $118,260 for a family of four. However, Lenoir contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lenoir is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lenoir home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lenoir residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lenoir also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.23% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lenoir include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and French. The most common language spoken in Lenoir is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
