Spruce Pine is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,191 people and two associated neighborhoods, Spruce Pine is the 296th largest community in North Carolina.Spruce Pine is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Spruce Pine is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spruce Pine who work in office and administrative support (12.20%), sales jobs (8.14%), and healthcare (6.91%). Also of interest is that Spruce Pine has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The overall crime rate in Spruce Pine 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!) Spruce Pine 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. Spruce Pine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Spruce Pine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Spruce Pine may be for you. Being a small town, Spruce Pine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Spruce Pine is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.13% of adults 25 and older in Spruce Pine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Spruce Pine in 2022 was $29,134, 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 $116,536 for a family of four. However, Spruce Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Spruce Pine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Spruce Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spruce Pine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Spruce Pine also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.63% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spruce Pine include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Spruce Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
