Hope Mills is a medium-sized town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 17,824 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Hope Mills is the 57th largest community in North Carolina.Hope Mills is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hope Mills is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hope Mills who work in office and administrative support (13.00%), healthcare (9.67%), and sales jobs (9.55%). There are many members of the armed forces living in Hope Mills. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform. Also of interest is that Hope Mills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small town, Hope Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Hope Mills are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.19% of adults in Hope Mills having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Hope Mills in 2022 was $26,854, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,416 for a family of four. However, Hope Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hope Mills is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hope Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hope Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Hope Mills also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.78% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hope Mills include Irish, English, German, European, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Hope Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
