What is the population of Sawmills town?

Sawmills town has 5,027 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #163 of 777 in North Carolina.

What is the median household income in Sawmills town?

Median household income in Sawmills town is $56,534 a year, 28% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $719 a month and the median home value is $180,500, so rent absorbs about 15.3% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sawmills town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sawmills, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sawmills, North Carolina (Sawmills, NC — Census place “Sawmills town”) is 5,027 residents, ranking #163 of 777 places in North Carolina. Median household income is $56,534, the median home is worth $180,500 and median gross rent runs $719 a month. Looking for the Sawmills North Carolina ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Sawmills, NC: 28630, 28638.

Population: 5,027Sawmills town residents
Median household income: $56,534Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $180,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $719Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 67.3%Owner-occupied households

Sawmills ZIP codes (North Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sawmills.

The Sawmills NC ZIP code list below covers 2 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Sawmills town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sawmills town median would spend about 15.3% 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 3.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 13.7% of residents and 67.3% of households own their home.

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

Sawmills town, NC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sawmills town is a mid-size town in North Carolina, with 5,027 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #163 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 79% of them. The median age here is 43.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Sawmills town earn a median of $56,534 a year, 28% below the national figure of $78,538 and 8% 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 13.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sawmills town is valued at $180,500, 40.5% below the national figure and 18% 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 15.3% 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 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 67.3% 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.

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 Sawmills town?: Sawmills town has 5,027 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #163 of 777 in North Carolina.
What is the median household income in Sawmills town?: Median household income in Sawmills town is $56,534 a year, 28% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sawmills town?: Median gross rent is $719 a month and the median home value is $180,500, so rent absorbs about 15.3% of median household income.
Is Sawmills town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sawmills town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sawmills town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.