Rutherfordton is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,654 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Rutherfordton is the 224th largest community in North Carolina.Rutherfordton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rutherfordton is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rutherfordton who work in food service (16.21%), sales jobs (13.30%), and office and administrative support (10.32%). Also of interest is that Rutherfordton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small town, Rutherfordton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The overall education level of Rutherfordton citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.09% of adults in Rutherfordton have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%. The per capita income in Rutherfordton in 2022 was $31,631, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,524 for a family of four. However, Rutherfordton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rutherfordton is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rutherfordton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rutherfordton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Rutherfordton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.69% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rutherfordton include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Rutherfordton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
