Norwood is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,442 people and three associated neighborhoods, Norwood is the 281st largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Norwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.59% of the Norwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Norwood is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norwood who work in maintenance occupations (12.83%), teaching (6.96%), and management occupations (6.83%). 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!) Norwood 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. Norwood has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Norwood than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Norwood may be for you. Being a small town, Norwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Norwood is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.69% of adults 25 and older in Norwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Norwood in 2022 was $27,578, 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 $110,312 for a family of four. However, Norwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Norwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Norwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Norwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Norwood include English, German, Scots-Irish, Irish, and French Canadian. The most common language spoken in Norwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
