What is the population of Trinity city?

Trinity city has 7,066 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #132 of 777 in North Carolina.

What is the median household income in Trinity city?

Median household income in Trinity city is $80,349 a year, 2.3% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Trinity city?

Median gross rent is $893 a month and the median home value is $187,700, so rent absorbs about 13.3% of median household income.

Is Trinity city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Trinity city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Trinity, NC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Trinity, North Carolina (Trinity, NC — Census place “Trinity city”) is 7,066 residents, ranking #132 of 777 places in North Carolina. Median household income is $80,349, the median home is worth $187,700 and median gross rent runs $893 a month. Looking for the Trinity North Carolina ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Trinity, NC: 27263, 27370.

Population: 7,066Trinity city residents
Median household income: $80,349Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $187,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $893Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 42.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 78.3%Owner-occupied households

Trinity ZIP codes (North Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Trinity.

The Trinity 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 Trinity city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Trinity city median would spend about 13.3% 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 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 10.4% of residents and 78.3% of households own their home.

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

Trinity city, NC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Trinity city is a mid-size town in North Carolina, with 7,066 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #132 of 777 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 42.3 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 Trinity city earn a median of $80,349 a year, 2.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 31% above 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 10.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Trinity city is valued at $187,700, 38.1% below the national figure and 15% below the $219,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $893 a month, 36.5% below the national figure, or roughly $10,716 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.3% 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 2.3×, 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. 78.3% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Trinity city?: Trinity city has 7,066 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #132 of 777 in North Carolina.
What is the median household income in Trinity city?: Median household income in Trinity city is $80,349 a year, 2.3% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Trinity city?: Median gross rent is $893 a month and the median home value is $187,700, so rent absorbs about 13.3% of median household income.
Is Trinity city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Trinity city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Trinity city 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.