Spruce Pine is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,220 people and two associated neighborhoods, Spruce Pine is the 296th largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Spruce Pine is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Spruce Pine is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spruce Pine who work in sales jobs (13.38%), office and administrative support (9.83%), and management occupations (9.19%). Also of interest is that Spruce Pine has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The overall crime rate in Spruce Pine is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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, Spruce Pine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spruce Pine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Spruce Pine is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.85 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Spruce Pine 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 Spruce Pine who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.99% of the adults in Spruce Pine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Spruce Pine in 2022 was $27,056, 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 $108,224 for a family of four. However, Spruce Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Spruce Pine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Spruce Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spruce Pine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Spruce Pine also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.54% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spruce Pine include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Spruce Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
