Because of many things, West End is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, West End really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is West End perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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, West End has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes West End a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, West End does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of West End are among the most well-educated in the nation: 42.17% of adults in West End have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in West End in 2022 was $39,553, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $158,212 for a family of four. However, West End contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
West End is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call West End home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of West End residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in West End include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in West End is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
