Bladenboro is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,634 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bladenboro is the 331st largest community in North Carolina.Bladenboro is a blue-collar town, with 45.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bladenboro is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bladenboro who work in sales jobs (16.31%), farm management occupations (9.37%), and business and financial occupations (8.16%). Another important characteristic of Bladenboro is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.91% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Being a small town, Bladenboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Bladenboro is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.91% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Bladenboro in 2022 was $20,768, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,072 for a family of four. However, Bladenboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bladenboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bladenboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bladenboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bladenboro also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.70% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bladenboro include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and European. The most common language spoken in Bladenboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
