Scotch Meadows, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Scotch Meadows CDP is a very small community in North Carolina, with 506 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #584 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 24% of them. The median age here is 37.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Scotch Meadows CDP earn a median of $110,694 a year, 40.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 81% 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 11.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Scotch Meadows CDP is valued at $233,000, 23.2% below the national figure and 6% above the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 100% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 506 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Scotch Meadows CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Scotch Meadows 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.