ZIP code 27605

ZIP 27605 is a mid-size town in Wake County, North Carolina, with 6,121 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #406 of 853 ranked by population — larger than 52% of them. The median age here is 31.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 ZIP 27605 earn a median of $63,267 a year, 19.4% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 17% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 27605 is valued at $440,300, 45.1% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,577 a month, 12.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,924 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.9% 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 7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 31.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Home values sit at 7× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

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.

ZIP 27605 is tabulated inside Wake County, North Carolina, one of 32 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 853 across North Carolina. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 27605 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 27605 reports a median household income of $63,267, 37% below the $99,819 county median, and close to the $62,646 typical NC ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $440,300, close to the county figure and 117% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,577 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 27605 carries 7.25% at the register, assembled from the Raleigh jurisdiction stack: the North Carolina state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 27605 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 27605 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.