Being a small town, Rutherfordton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Rutherfordton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.09% of adults in Rutherfordton have a college degree.
The per capita income in Rutherfordton in 2022 was $31,631, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,524 for a family of four. However, Rutherfordton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rutherfordton is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rutherfordton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rutherfordton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Rutherfordton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.69% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rutherfordton include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Rutherfordton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
