What is the population of Tarboro town?

Tarboro town has 10,705 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #92 of 777 in North Carolina.

What is the median household income in Tarboro town?

Median household income in Tarboro town is $49,386 a year, 37.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $698 a month and the median home value is $155,500, so rent absorbs about 17% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Tarboro town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Tarboro, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Tarboro, North Carolina (Tarboro, NC — Census place “Tarboro town”) is 10,705 residents, ranking #92 of 777 places in North Carolina. Median household income is $49,386, the median home is worth $155,500 and median gross rent runs $698 a month. Looking for the Tarboro North Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Tarboro, NC: 27886.

Population: 10,705Tarboro town residents
Median household income: $49,386Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $155,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $698Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 48.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 57%Owner-occupied households

Tarboro ZIP codes (North Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Tarboro.

The Tarboro NC ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

27886

What the numbers mean in Tarboro town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Tarboro town median would spend about 17% 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 3.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19.8% of residents and 57% of households own their home.

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

Tarboro town, NC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Tarboro town is a mid-size town in North Carolina, with 10,705 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #92 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 48.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Tarboro town earn a median of $49,386 a year, 37.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% 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 19.8% 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 Tarboro town is valued at $155,500, 48.7% below the national figure and 29% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $698 a month, 50.4% below the national figure, or roughly $8,376 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17% 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 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 57% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 Tarboro town?: Tarboro town has 10,705 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #92 of 777 in North Carolina.
What is the median household income in Tarboro town?: Median household income in Tarboro town is $49,386 a year, 37.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Tarboro town?: Median gross rent is $698 a month and the median home value is $155,500, so rent absorbs about 17% of median household income.
Is Tarboro town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Tarboro town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Tarboro 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.