Warrenton is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 834 people and two associated neighborhoods, Warrenton is the 420th largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Warrenton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Warrenton is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Warrenton who work in sales jobs (16.71%), management occupations (16.43%), and farm management occupations (12.10%). Another important characteristic of Warrenton is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town. 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!) Warrenton 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. Warrenton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Warrenton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Warrenton may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.34 minutes getting to work every day. Warrenton is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Warrenton who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.06% of the adults in Warrenton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Warrenton in 2022 was $42,547, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $170,188 for a family of four. However, Warrenton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Warrenton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Warrenton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Warrenton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Warrenton include English, German, French, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Warrenton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
