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.Mount Gilead is a blue-collar town, with 36.85% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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. 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!) Mount Gilead 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. Mount Gilead has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Gilead than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Gilead may be for you. Being a small town, Mount Gilead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Mount Gilead who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.26% of adults in Mount Gilead 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. Mount Gilead also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 20.89%. The most common language spoken in Mount Gilead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Laotian.
