Ocracoke, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Ocracoke CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 709 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #523 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 46.8 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 Ocracoke CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 16.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ocracoke CDP is valued at $472,200, 55.6% above the national figure and 115% above the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,412 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,944 across a full year. 67.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 709 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Ocracoke CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Ocracoke 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.