Mount Gilead is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,167 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Gilead is the 386th largest community in North Carolina.Mount Gilead is a blue-collar town, with 37.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mount Gilead is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Gilead who work in healthcare suport services (18.00%), sales jobs (10.84%), and office and administrative support (7.57%). And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Mount Gilead has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too. 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, Mount Gilead has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Gilead a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Mount Gilead 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 population of Mount Gilead overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Mount Gilead, 22.86% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mount Gilead in 2022 was $24,413, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,652 for a family of four. However, Mount Gilead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Gilead is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Gilead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Gilead residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Gilead include Scots-Irish, French, English, Scottish, and Irish. The most common language spoken in Mount Gilead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.
