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, Mount Gilead has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Gilead a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Mount Gilead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Mount Gilead who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.64% of the adults in Mount Gilead have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Gilead in 2022 was $26,654, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,616 for a family of four. However, Mount Gilead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Gilead is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Gilead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Gilead residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Gilead include Scottish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Mount Gilead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.
