Marshville is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,617 people and two associated neighborhoods, Marshville is the 274th largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Marshville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.39% of the Marshville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Marshville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Marshville who work in office and administrative support (14.04%), food service (7.24%), and healthcare suport services (6.91%). Also of interest is that Marshville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Marshville 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. Marshville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Marshville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Marshville may be for you. One downside of living in Marshville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.65 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Marshville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Marshville have a very low rate of college education: just 8.72% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Marshville in 2022 was $20,942, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,768 for a family of four. However, Marshville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Marshville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Marshville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marshville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Marshville include English, German, Scots-Irish, African, and Irish. The most common language spoken in Marshville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
