Maiden is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,796 people and two associated neighborhoods, Maiden is the 216th largest community in North Carolina.
Also of interest is that Maiden has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Maiden 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. Maiden has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Maiden than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Maiden may be for you.
Maiden 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 rate of college-level education in Maiden is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Maiden in 2022 was $28,735, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,940 for a family of four. However, Maiden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Maiden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Maiden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maiden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maiden include German, Irish, European, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Maiden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.