Fuquay-Varina, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Fuquay-Varina town is a small city in North Carolina, with 37,749 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #27 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 96% of them. The median age here is 36.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Fuquay-Varina town earn a median of $111,447 a year, 41.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 82% above 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 8.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fuquay-Varina town is valued at $410,600, 35.3% above the national figure and 87% above the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,646 a month, 17.1% above the national figure, or roughly $19,752 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 74.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.