The overall crime rate in Bakersville 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.
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!) Bakersville 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. Bakersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bakersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bakersville may be for you.
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 16.75 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, Bakersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Bakersville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bakersville in 2022 was $38,353, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,412 for a family of four. However, Bakersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bakersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bakersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bakersville include Scots-Irish, English, German, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
