Nov. 8, 2006 - Cary NC Real Estate - All about Cary

COMMUNITY PROFILE: Technology Town

With its quiet, tree-lined streets, well-groomed subdivisions and growing economy, Cary has repeatedly ranked among the top places in the country to live, to work, to find a home, to start a business, to raise a family or retire. Named Best Place To Live in the East by Money magazine in 2004, Cary is noted as the Technology Town of North Carolina, due to the large number of residents with computer and Internet access. With more than fourteen major universities within an hour’s drive and famed Research Triangle Park just down the road, that’s no surprise.

More than 43 percent of Cary residents are employed in professional specialty jobs and executive, administrative, and managerial positions. A highly educated labor pool – more than two thirds of adults hold a college degree -- and low unemployment rate make for a thriving economy. Cary ranked the fifth safest of 350 large cities nationally and the safest in the South during 2003. Housing choices range from a suburban neighborhood overlooking a small lake to country estates. Homes are priced from $120,000 in Park Village to the $250,000-to-$750,000 range in Lochmere.

Cary Fact: Cary has one of the highest median income levels in North Carolina and claims the highest percentage of Ph.D.s in the country for towns with more than 75,000 people.