Pilot Mountain is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,431 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pilot Mountain is the 358th largest community in North Carolina.Pilot Mountain is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pilot Mountain is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pilot Mountain who work in office and administrative support (22.05%), sales jobs (11.53%), and food service (8.24%). Pilot Mountain 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.The population of Pilot Mountain overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Pilot Mountain, 21.74% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Pilot Mountain in 2022 was $33,276, 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 $133,104 for a family of four. However, Pilot Mountain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Pilot Mountain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pilot Mountain residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pilot Mountain include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Pilot Mountain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Spanish.
