Mount Gilead is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,167 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Gilead is the 386th largest community in North Carolina.When you are in Mount Gilead, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.83% of Mount Gilead’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Gilead is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Gilead who work in healthcare suport services (18.00%), sales jobs (10.84%), and office and administrative support (7.57%). And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Mount Gilead has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too. 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!) Mount Gilead 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. Mount Gilead has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Gilead than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Gilead may be for you. Mount Gilead 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 population of Mount Gilead overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Mount Gilead, 22.86% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mount Gilead in 2022 was $24,413, 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 $97,652 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 Scots-Irish, French, English, Scottish, and Irish. The most common language spoken in Mount Gilead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.
