Sneads Ferry is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,548 people and two associated neighborhoods, Sneads Ferry is the 272nd largest community in North Carolina.Sneads Ferry is a military town: the armed forces employs 7.86% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Manufacturing and Retail are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 14.27% and 13.89% of the civilian workforce respectively. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.80% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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, Sneads Ferry has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sneads Ferry a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Sneads Ferry is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. Being a small town, Sneads Ferry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Sneads Ferry who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.27% of the adults in Sneads Ferry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Sneads Ferry in 2022 was $30,248, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,992 for a family of four. However, Sneads Ferry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sneads Ferry is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sneads Ferry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sneads Ferry residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sneads Ferry include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Sneads Ferry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
