What is the population of Pinetops town?

Pinetops town has 1,323 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #410 of 777 in North Carolina.

What is the median household income in Pinetops town?

Median household income in Pinetops town is $54,196 a year, 31% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $719 a month and the median home value is $132,600, so rent absorbs about 15.9% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Pinetops town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Pinetops, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Pinetops, North Carolina (Pinetops, NC — Census place “Pinetops town”) is 1,323 residents, ranking #410 of 777 places in North Carolina. Median household income is $54,196, the median home is worth $132,600 and median gross rent runs $719 a month. Looking for the Pinetops North Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Pinetops, NC: 27864.

Population: 1,323Pinetops town residents
Median household income: $54,196Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $132,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $719Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 42.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 51.8%Owner-occupied households

Pinetops ZIP codes (North Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Pinetops.

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

27864

What the numbers mean in Pinetops town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Pinetops town median would spend about 15.9% 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 2.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 18.4% of residents and 51.8% of households own their home.

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

Pinetops town, NC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Pinetops town is a small town in North Carolina, with 1,323 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #410 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 42.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Pinetops town earn a median of $54,196 a year, 31% below the national figure of $78,538 and 11% 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 18.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pinetops town is valued at $132,600, 56.3% below the national figure and 40% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $719 a month, 48.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,628 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.9% 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 2.4×, 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. 51.8% 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 Pinetops town?: Pinetops town has 1,323 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #410 of 777 in North Carolina.
What is the median household income in Pinetops town?: Median household income in Pinetops town is $54,196 a year, 31% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Pinetops town?: Median gross rent is $719 a month and the median home value is $132,600, so rent absorbs about 15.9% of median household income.
Is Pinetops town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Pinetops town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Pinetops 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.