Riegelwood is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Riegelwood enrolled in college, Riegelwood has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
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, Riegelwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Riegelwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Riegelwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Riegelwood ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.30% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Riegelwood in 2022 was $38,774, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,096 for a family of four. However, Riegelwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Riegelwood is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Riegelwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Riegelwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Riegelwood include German, Irish, English, Lithuanian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Riegelwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Italian.
