Riegelwood, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Riegelwood CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 539 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #575 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 59.2 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 Riegelwood 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 9.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Riegelwood CDP is valued at $181,800, 40.1% below the national figure and 17% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $995 a month, 29.2% below the national figure, or roughly $11,940 across a full year. 72.4% 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.

A median age of 59.2 puts Riegelwood 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. With 539 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Riegelwood CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Riegelwood 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.