Chowan Beach, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Chowan Beach CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 407 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #622 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 19% of them. The median age here is 41.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Chowan Beach CDP earn a median of $22,583 a year, 71.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 63% below 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 55.8% 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 Chowan Beach CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 41.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.

With 407 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chowan Beach CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Chowan Beach 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.