Overall, Bakersville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Bakersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bakersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Bakersville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.75 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Bakersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Bakersville, just 11.05% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bakersville in 2022 was $38,353, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,412 for a family of four. However, Bakersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bakersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bakersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bakersville include Scots-Irish, English, German, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
