Elrod, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Elrod CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 245 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #681 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 36.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Elrod CDP earn a median of $25,938 a year, 67% below the national figure of $78,538 and 58% 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 35.5% 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 Elrod CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $776 a month, 44.8% below the national figure, or roughly $9,312 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 52% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 245 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Elrod CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Elrod 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.