Boiling Spring Lakes, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Boiling Spring Lakes city is a mid-size town in North Carolina, with 6,206 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #140 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 46.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Boiling Spring Lakes city earn a median of $59,750 a year, 23.9% 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. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 8.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Boiling Spring Lakes city is valued at $260,400, 14.2% below the national figure and 18% above the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,337 a month, 4.9% below the national figure, or roughly $16,044 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 76.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.