Porters Neck, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Porters Neck CDP is a mid-size town in North Carolina, with 7,102 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #131 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 52 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Porters Neck CDP earn a median of $115,417 a year, 47% above the national figure of $78,538 and 89% above the $61,228 median for the 459 North Carolina cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 2.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Porters Neck CDP is valued at $525,100, 73.1% above the national figure and 139% above the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,591 a month, 13.2% above the national figure, or roughly $19,092 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.5% 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 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 79.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 52 puts Porters Neck CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

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.