Mount Gilead is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,185 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Gilead is the 386th largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mount Gilead is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.85% of the Mount Gilead workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mount Gilead is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Gilead who work in healthcare suport services (15.91%), healthcare (10.05%), and sales jobs (7.87%). And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Mount Gilead has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too. 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, Mount Gilead has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Gilead a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Mount Gilead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The overall education level of Mount Gilead is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.26% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mount Gilead in 2022 was $29,338, 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 $117,352 for a family of four. However, Mount Gilead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Gilead is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Gilead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Gilead residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Gilead include German, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Swedish. In addition, Mount Gilead has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.89%). The most common language spoken in Mount Gilead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Laotian.
