One downside of living in East Bend is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In East Bend, the average commute to work is 35.49 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
East Bend 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.
In East Bend, just 9.07% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in East Bend in 2022 was $27,981, 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 $111,924 for a family of four. However, East Bend contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
East Bend is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call East Bend home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Bend residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. East Bend also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.92% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in East Bend include German, Irish, Dutch, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in East Bend is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
