Hendersonville is a medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 15,321 people and 15 associated neighborhoods, Hendersonville is the 71st largest community in North Carolina.Hendersonville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hendersonville is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hendersonville who work in food service (11.20%), sales jobs (10.90%), and management occupations (8.97%). Also of interest is that Hendersonville 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 Hendersonville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.77% 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. The citizens of Hendersonville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.57% of adults in Hendersonville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Hendersonville in 2022 was $38,318, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,272 for a family of four. However, Hendersonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hendersonville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hendersonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hendersonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hendersonville include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Hendersonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
