What is the population of Lillington town?

Lillington town has 4,683 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #177 of 777 in North Carolina.

What is the median household income in Lillington town?

Median household income in Lillington town is $63,393 a year, 19.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Lillington town?

Median gross rent is $934 a month and the median home value is $219,600, so rent absorbs about 17.7% of median household income.

Is Lillington town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Lillington town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Lillington, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Lillington, North Carolina (Lillington, NC — Census place “Lillington town”) is 4,683 residents, ranking #177 of 777 places in North Carolina. Median household income is $63,393, the median home is worth $219,600 and median gross rent runs $934 a month. Looking for the Lillington North Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Lillington, NC: 27546.

Population: 4,683Lillington town residents
Median household income: $63,393Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $219,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $934Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 57.1%Owner-occupied households

Lillington ZIP codes (North Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Lillington.

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

27546

What the numbers mean in Lillington town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Lillington town median would spend about 17.7% 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 3.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 6.3% of residents and 57.1% of households own their home.

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

Lillington town, NC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Lillington town is a small town in North Carolina, with 4,683 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #177 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 77% of them. The median age here is 36.1 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 Lillington town earn a median of $63,393 a year, 19.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 4% above 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 6.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lillington town is valued at $219,600, 27.6% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $934 a month, 33.6% below the national figure, or roughly $11,208 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 57.1% 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.

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 Lillington town?: Lillington town has 4,683 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #177 of 777 in North Carolina.
What is the median household income in Lillington town?: Median household income in Lillington town is $63,393 a year, 19.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Lillington town?: Median gross rent is $934 a month and the median home value is $219,600, so rent absorbs about 17.7% of median household income.
Is Lillington town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Lillington town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Lillington town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.