Norwood is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,442 people and three associated neighborhoods, Norwood is the 281st largest community in North Carolina.When you are in Norwood, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.59% of Norwood’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Norwood is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norwood who work in maintenance occupations (12.83%), teaching (6.96%), and management occupations (6.83%). 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, Norwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Norwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Norwood 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 percentage of adults in Norwood who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.69% of the adults in Norwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Norwood in 2022 was $27,578, 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 $110,312 for a family of four. However, Norwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Norwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Norwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Norwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Norwood include English, German, Scots-Irish, Irish, and French Canadian. The most common language spoken in Norwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
