About Jamestown

Jamestown is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 11,564 people and just one neighborhood, Jamestown is the 80th largest community in North Carolina.

Jamestown is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Jamestown is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jamestown who work in sales jobs (15.83%), management occupations (14.87%), and office and administrative support jobs (14.09%).

Also of interest is that Jamestown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Jamestown is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Jamestown is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Jamestown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Jamestown perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Jamestown is a very car-oriented town. 98.39% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Jamestown is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Jamestown has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Jamestown 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.

Jamestown Information and Demographics

The population of Jamestown is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 44.96% of adults in Jamestown have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Jamestown in 2000 was $30,978, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $123,912 for a family of four. However, Jamestown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Jamestown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jamestown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Jamestown is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jamestown include German, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Jamestown is English. Some people also speak Spanish.