Caroleen, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Caroleen CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 261 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #677 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 25 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Caroleen CDP earn a median of $81,019 a year, 3.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 32% above 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 13% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Caroleen CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 70.4% 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.

A median age of 25 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Caroleen CDP 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.