Elk Park, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Elk Park town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 694 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #528 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 46.1 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 Elk Park town earn a median of $44,350 a year, 43.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 28% 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 27.4% 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 Elk Park town is valued at $145,000, 52.2% below the national figure and 34% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 57.9% 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.

With 694 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Elk Park town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Elk Park 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.