Boiling Spring Lakes is a somewhat small coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 6,658 people and two associated neighborhoods, Boiling Spring Lakes is the 141st largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Boiling Spring Lakes is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Boiling Spring Lakes is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Boiling Spring Lakes who work in sales jobs (12.85%), business and financial occupations (8.57%), and maintenance occupations (7.79%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.70% 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. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Boiling Spring Lakes has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Boiling Spring Lakes a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Boiling Spring Lakes is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities. Being a small city, Boiling Spring Lakes does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Boiling Spring Lakes who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.84% of the adults in Boiling Spring Lakes have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Boiling Spring Lakes in 2022 was $36,542, 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 $146,168 for a family of four. However, Boiling Spring Lakes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Boiling Spring Lakes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boiling Spring Lakes residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boiling Spring Lakes include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Boiling Spring Lakes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
