The fastest-growing of the forty most populous US counties, and among the least served by public transport.
1,151,009
people (2023)
+23.9%
since 2013
$101,763
median household income
37.2
median age
64%
own their home
0.7%
commute by transit
Median household income, by census tract
under $72,296
$72,296–$89,474
$89,474–$113,048
$113,048–$146,211
$146,211 and over
no data
The 230 census tracts of Wake County, North Carolina, shaded by median household
income. 228 of 229 inhabited tracts carry a value. Of the rest, 1 has no households at all (parks, water, airports and institutional land) and 1 is too small for the survey to publish a median safely. Both groups are hatched.
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How it compares
Wake County
North Carolina
United States
Population
1,151,009
10,584,340
332,387,540
Median household income
$101,763
$69,904
$78,538
Median age
37.2
39.1
38.7
Own their home
64%
66%
65%
What the tract map shows
Wake County added 221,795 people between the 2013 and 2023 American Community
Surveys — a 23.9% rise, the fastest of the forty counties in this set. Median household
income is $101,763, around $23,000 above the national figure and twelfth of the forty,
and the median age of 37.2 runs a year and a half below the national 38.7.
Almost none of that movement travels by transit: 0.7% of commuters do,
thirty-eighth of forty. Home ownership is 64%, within a point of the national rate.
The tract map is moderately graded. The top fifth of its 230 tracts averages $171,683
against $56,612 in the bottom fifth — 3.0 to 1, close to the middle of the set — and
income rises to the west, a correlation of −0.35 with longitude. Coverage is near
complete: one tract has no occupied households and one more is too small for the survey to
publish a median, leaving 228 of the 229 inhabited tracts with a value.
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Demography: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates
(and 2013 for the change), public domain.
Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census — cartographic boundary files (public domain). Licence: US-Census-Public-Domain.
Source: US Census Bureau.
Tract counts and join rates measured from the data Vizzie holds, 2026-09-22.