Seagrove is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 239 people and two associated neighborhoods, Seagrove is the 549th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Seagrove was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Seagrove economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Seagrove, where the median household income is $72,689.00.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Seagrove is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.86% of the Seagrove workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Seagrove is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seagrove who work in computer science and math (23.30%), business and financial occupations (5.68%), and office and administrative support (5.11%). Also of interest is that Seagrove has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The overall crime rate in Seagrove is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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!) Seagrove 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. Seagrove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Seagrove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Seagrove may be for you. One of the benefits of Seagrove is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.39 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small town, Seagrove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The overall education level of Seagrove is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.45% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Seagrove in 2022 was $26,801, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,204 for a family of four. However, Seagrove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Seagrove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seagrove residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Seagrove include German, Irish, English, British, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Seagrove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
