What is the population of Hamlet city?

Hamlet city has 6,000 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #146 of 777 in North Carolina.

What is the median household income in Hamlet city?

Median household income in Hamlet city is $38,500 a year, 51% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Hamlet city?

Median gross rent is $553 a month and the median home value is $103,800, so rent absorbs about 17.2% of median household income.

Is Hamlet city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Hamlet city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Hamlet, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Hamlet, North Carolina (Hamlet, NC — Census place “Hamlet city”) is 6,000 residents, ranking #146 of 777 places in North Carolina. Median household income is $38,500, the median home is worth $103,800 and median gross rent runs $553 a month. Looking for the Hamlet North Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Hamlet, NC: 28345.

Population: 6,000Hamlet city residents
Median household income: $38,500Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $103,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $553Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 55.7%Owner-occupied households

Hamlet ZIP codes (North Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Hamlet.

The Hamlet NC ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

28345

What the numbers mean in Hamlet city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Hamlet city median would spend about 17.2% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 22.1% of residents and 55.7% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Hamlet city, NC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Hamlet city is a mid-size town in North Carolina, with 6,000 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #146 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 81% of them. The median age here is 41.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Hamlet city earn a median of $38,500 a year, 51% below the national figure of $78,538 and 37% 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 22.1% 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 Hamlet city is valued at $103,800, 65.8% below the national figure and 53% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $553 a month, 60.7% below the national figure, or roughly $6,636 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.2% 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 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 55.7% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Hamlet city?: Hamlet city has 6,000 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #146 of 777 in North Carolina.
What is the median household income in Hamlet city?: Median household income in Hamlet city is $38,500 a year, 51% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Hamlet city?: Median gross rent is $553 a month and the median home value is $103,800, so rent absorbs about 17.2% of median household income.
Is Hamlet city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Hamlet city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Hamlet city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.