Mount Olive is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Mount Olive enrolled in college, Mount Olive has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
The percentage of adults in Mount Olive who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.21% of the adults in Mount Olive have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Olive in 2022 was $30,256, 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 $121,024 for a family of four. However, Mount Olive contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Olive is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Olive home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Olive residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Olive include English, Haitian, German, Irish, and European.
Mount Olive also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.49%.
The most common language spoken in Mount Olive is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.
