Rural Hall, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Rural Hall town is a small town in North Carolina, with 3,421 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #237 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 69% of them. The median age here is 42.6 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 Rural Hall town earn a median of $50,665 a year, 35.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 17% below the $61,228 median for the 459 North Carolina cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 15.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rural Hall town is valued at $183,800, 39.4% below the national figure and 16% 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. A household on the local median income would put about 23.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68% 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.

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.