Castle Hayne is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,243 people and two associated neighborhoods, Castle Hayne is the 380th largest community in North Carolina.Castle Hayne is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Castle Hayne is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Castle Hayne who work in management occupations (16.48%), teaching (14.49%), and office and administrative support (7.10%). Also of interest is that Castle Hayne has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Castle Hayne telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.13% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. 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!) Castle Hayne 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. Castle Hayne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Castle Hayne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Castle Hayne may be for you. Castle Hayne is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, Castle Hayne is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.14% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Castle Hayne in 2022 was $33,924, 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 $135,696 for a family of four. However, Castle Hayne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Castle Hayne is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Castle Hayne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Castle Hayne residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Castle Hayne also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.19% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Castle Hayne include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Castle Hayne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
