Clarkton, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Clarkton town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 875 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #483 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 37% of them. The median age here is 30.5 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 Clarkton town earn a median of not published a year. 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 48.2% 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 Clarkton town is valued at $137,500, 54.7% below the national figure and 37% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,125 a month, 20% below the national figure, or roughly $13,500 across a full year. 61.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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 875 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Clarkton town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Clarkton 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.