State Road is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,806 people and two associated neighborhoods, State Road is the largest community in North Carolina.State Road is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, State Road is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in State Road who work in office and administrative support (15.08%), teaching (13.06%), and management occupations (8.75%). A relatively large number of people in State Road telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.17% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 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!) State Road 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. State Road has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in State Road than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, State Road may be for you. Being a small town, State Road does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, State Road is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.61% of adults in State Road have a college degree. The per capita income in State Road in 2022 was $34,407, 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 $137,628 for a family of four. However, State Road contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call State Road home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of State Road residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in State Road include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Hungarian. The most common language spoken in State Road is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
