Bolton, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Bolton town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 469 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #600 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 22% of them. The median age here is 38.4 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 Bolton town earn a median of $46,250 a year, 41.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 24% below the $61,228 median for the 459 North Carolina cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 23.7% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bolton town is valued at $125,000, 58.8% below the national figure and 43% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 84.7% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 469 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bolton town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Bolton town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.