Kelly, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Kelly CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 706 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #525 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 30.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Kelly CDP earn a median of $51,155 a year, 34.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 16% below 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 6.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Kelly CDP is valued at $125,200, 58.7% below the national figure and 43% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 78.3% 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.

With 706 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Kelly CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Kelly 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.