Atkinson, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Atkinson town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 487 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #591 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 33.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Atkinson town earn a median of $60,000 a year, 23.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $61,228 median for the 459 North Carolina cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 12.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Atkinson town is valued at $135,900, 55.2% below the national figure and 38% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,688 a month, 20.1% above the national figure, or roughly $20,256 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 33.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 88% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Atkinson town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 33.8% of median income while homes cost only 2.3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 487 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Atkinson town against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.