Rural Hall is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,463 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rural Hall is the 234th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Rural Hall was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Rural Hall economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Rural Hall, where the median household income is $56,037.00.Rural Hall is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rural Hall is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rural Hall who work in office and administrative support (17.85%), management occupations (12.35%), and sales jobs (9.06%). Also of interest is that Rural Hall has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Rural Hall telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.65% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Rural Hall 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. Rural Hall has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rural Hall than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rural Hall may be for you. Being a small town, Rural Hall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Rural Hall 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 Rural Hall, 22.83% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Rural Hall in 2022 was $37,702, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,808 for a family of four. However, Rural Hall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rural Hall is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rural Hall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rural Hall residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rural Hall include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Rural Hall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
