Taylorsville is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,298 people and six associated neighborhoods, Taylorsville is the 283rd largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Taylorsville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Taylorsville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Taylorsville who work in sales jobs (14.07%), office and administrative support (11.51%), and management occupations (7.42%). 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!) Taylorsville 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. Taylorsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Taylorsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Taylorsville may be for you. Being a small town, Taylorsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Taylorsville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.39% of adults in Taylorsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Taylorsville in 2022 was $24,280, 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 $97,120 for a family of four. However, Taylorsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Taylorsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.58% of its population below the federal poverty line.Taylorsville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Taylorsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Taylorsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Taylorsville include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Taylorsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.
