Seagrove is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 240 people and two associated neighborhoods, Seagrove is the 549th largest community in North Carolina. Seagrove has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Seagrove, where the median household income is $72,689.00.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Seagrove is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.86% of the Seagrove workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Seagrove is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seagrove who work in computer science and math (23.30%), business and financial occupations (5.68%), and office and administrative support (5.11%). Also of interest is that Seagrove has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The overall crime rate in Seagrove is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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, Seagrove has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Seagrove a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.39 minutes getting to work every day. Seagrove 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 terms of college education, Seagrove is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.45% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Seagrove in 2022 was $26,801, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,204 for a family of four. However, Seagrove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Seagrove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seagrove residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Seagrove include German, Irish, English, British, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Seagrove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
