Plymouth is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,249 people and three associated neighborhoods, Plymouth is the 236th largest community in North Carolina.Plymouth is a blue-collar town, with 44.72% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Plymouth is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Plymouth who work in management occupations (13.96%), farm management occupations (11.01%), and office and administrative support (8.40%). 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, Plymouth has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Plymouth a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Plymouth does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Plymouth has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.53% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Plymouth in 2022 was $17,266, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,064 for a family of four. Plymouth also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.00% of its population below the federal poverty line.Plymouth is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Plymouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plymouth residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Plymouth include English, Scottish, Italian, Other Subsaharan African, and European. The most common language spoken in Plymouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
