Roper, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Roper town is a very small community in North Carolina, with 586 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #558 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 28% of them. The median age here is 40.9 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 Roper town earn a median of $19,155 a year, 75.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 69% below the $61,228 median for the 459 North Carolina cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 47.8% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Roper town is valued at $72,100, 76.2% below the national figure and 67% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $645 a month, 54.1% below the national figure, or roughly $7,740 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 40.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 43.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.

Roper town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 40.4% of median income while homes cost only 3.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 586 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Roper town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.