Dobbins Heights, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Dobbins Heights town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 711 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #522 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 48.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Dobbins Heights town earn a median of $21,389 a year, 72.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 65% below the $61,228 median for the 459 North Carolina cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 40.2% 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 Dobbins Heights town is valued at $50,800, 83.3% below the national figure and 77% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $665 a month, 52.7% below the national figure, or roughly $7,980 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 37.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 53.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Dobbins Heights town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 37.3% of median income while homes cost only 2.4× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 711 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Dobbins Heights town against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.