Dortches, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Dortches town is a small town in North Carolina, with 1,317 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #412 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 42.4 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 Dortches town earn a median of $72,955 a year, 7.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% above 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 9.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dortches town is valued at $230,600, 24% below the national figure and 5% above the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 79.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

The Census withheld gross rent for Dortches 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.