Lansing, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Lansing town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 222 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #695 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 10% of them. The median age here is 48.1 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 Lansing town earn a median of $49,083 a year, 37.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% 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 5.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lansing town is valued at $155,500, 48.7% below the national figure and 29% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $961 a month, 31.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,532 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 57.6% 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 222 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lansing town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.