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Wake County, North Carolina

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

Census Tract 501 — $101,486Census Tract 503 — $93,225Census Tract 504 — $83,375Census Tract 505 — $120,125Census Tract 506 — $133,235Census Tract 507 — $49,677Census Tract 508 — $42,156Census Tract 509 — $36,339Census Tract 510 — $71,218Census Tract 511.01 — $30,476Census Tract 511.02 — $33,854Census Tract 512 — $64,409Census Tract 514 — $74,625Census Tract 515.01 — $172,813Census Tract 515.02 — $139,550Census Tract 516 — $167,596Census Tract 517 — $185,875Census Tract 518 — $155,217Census Tract 519 — $57,021Census Tract 520.01 — $35,610Census Tract 520.02 — $61,447Census Tract 521.01 — $45,197Census Tract 521.02 — $71,000Census Tract 523.03 — $75,357Census Tract 523.04 — $81,827Census Tract 523.05 — $63,664Census Tract 523.06 — $82,917Census Tract 523.07 — $61,642Census Tract 524.01 — $82,545Census Tract 524.04 — $86,719Census Tract 524.07 — $71,170Census Tract 524.08 — $29,926Census Tract 524.09 — $29,711Census Tract 524.10 — $64,911Census Tract 524.11 — $52,137Census Tract 525.04 — $78,300Census Tract 525.05 — $88,430Census Tract 525.06 — $89,934Census Tract 525.07 — $95,882Census Tract 525.08 — $91,000Census Tract 525.09 — $76,544Census Tract 526.01 — $187,083Census Tract 526.02 — $99,665Census Tract 526.03 — $119,223Census Tract 527.01 — $58,178Census Tract 527.04 — $44,857Census Tract 527.05 — $85,802Census Tract 527.06 — $83,155Census Tract 527.07 — $58,668Census Tract 528.01 — $71,534Census Tract 528.02 — $66,953Census Tract 528.07 — $72,676Census Tract 528.09 — $80,455Census Tract 528.10 — $82,398Census Tract 528.11 — $70,328Census Tract 528.12 — $103,182Census Tract 528.13 — $59,667Census Tract 528.14 — $93,081Census Tract 528.15 — $72,895Census Tract 528.16 — $88,981Census Tract 529.01 — $109,318Census Tract 529.02 — $91,779Census Tract 529.03 — $130,104Census Tract 529.05 — $91,968Census Tract 529.06 — $108,705Census Tract 530.03 — $86,595Census Tract 530.04 — $124,261Census Tract 530.05 — $179,899Census Tract 530.06 — $157,813Census Tract 530.07 — $144,423Census Tract 530.09 — $88,908Census Tract 530.10 — $175,852Census Tract 530.11 — $89,474Census Tract 531.05 — $89,583Census Tract 531.06 — $88,859Census Tract 531.09 — $110,242Census Tract 531.10 — $109,236Census Tract 531.11 — $126,178Census Tract 531.12 — $109,583Census Tract 531.13 — $89,032Census Tract 531.14 — $102,683Census Tract 531.15 — $73,650Census Tract 532.02 — $137,361Census Tract 532.03 — $132,232Census Tract 532.04 — $86,500Census Tract 532.05 — $136,331Census Tract 532.06 — $117,789Census Tract 532.08 — $148,014Census Tract 532.09 — $130,400Census Tract 532.10 — $138,924Census Tract 532.11 — $185,378Census Tract 534.05 — $109,519Census Tract 534.08 — $142,404Census Tract 534.09 — $171,232Census Tract 534.10 — $193,621Census Tract 534.11 — $176,650Census Tract 534.15 — $146,473Census Tract 534.17 — $86,917Census Tract 534.19 — $148,021Census Tract 534.21 — $122,337Census Tract 534.22 — $158,558Census Tract 534.23 — $118,796Census Tract 534.24 — $160,500Census Tract 534.25 — $168,095Census Tract 534.26 — $173,417Census Tract 534.27 — $137,396Census Tract 534.28 — $169,548Census Tract 534.29 — $116,071Census Tract 534.30 — $133,500Census Tract 534.31 — $107,872Census Tract 534.32 — $115,375Census Tract 534.33 — $144,318Census Tract 534.34 — $121,591Census Tract 534.35 — $111,441Census Tract 534.36 — $103,639Census Tract 535.05 — $121,190Census Tract 535.06 — $107,346Census Tract 535.07 — $62,292Census Tract 535.09 — $186,250Census Tract 535.12 — $99,741Census Tract 535.13 — $75,086Census Tract 535.16 — $77,794Census Tract 535.17 — $84,846Census Tract 535.18 — $112,014Census Tract 535.19 — $72,331Census Tract 535.20 — $87,476Census Tract 535.21 — $131,176Census Tract 535.22 — $124,300Census Tract 535.23 — $228,750Census Tract 535.24 — $88,932Census Tract 535.25 — $126,467Census Tract 536.03 — $161,786Census Tract 536.04 — $191,696Census Tract 536.08 — $146,356Census Tract 536.09 — $83,444Census Tract 536.11 — $148,904Census Tract 536.12 — $139,940Census Tract 536.13 — $122,519Census Tract 536.14 — $139,428Census Tract 536.15 — $108,968Census Tract 536.16 — $144,219Census Tract 536.17 — $151,063Census Tract 536.18 — $147,742Census Tract 536.19 — $84,955Census Tract 536.20 — $131,753Census Tract 537.11 — $151,179Census Tract 537.12 — $137,065Census Tract 537.13 — $59,208Census Tract 537.14 — $110,960Census Tract 537.15 — $119,948Census Tract 537.16 — $69,924Census Tract 537.17 — $90,000Census Tract 537.18 — $135,865Census Tract 537.19 — $146,211Census Tract 537.20 — $186,750Census Tract 537.21 — $197,115Census Tract 537.22 — $112,991Census Tract 537.23 — $89,520Census Tract 537.24 — $108,938Census Tract 537.25 — $111,566Census Tract 537.26 — $82,643Census Tract 537.27 — $132,117Census Tract 537.28 — $61,809Census Tract 537.29 — $93,289Census Tract 537.30 — $64,954Census Tract 538.03 — $242,647Census Tract 538.04 — $171,027Census Tract 538.05 — $157,277Census Tract 538.06 — $167,841Census Tract 538.07 — $144,635Census Tract 538.08 — $178,789Census Tract 539.01 — $203,269Census Tract 539.02 — $213,924Census Tract 540.01 — $62,725Census Tract 540.04 — $81,728Census Tract 540.06 — $59,312Census Tract 540.07 — $75,775Census Tract 540.08 — $63,736Census Tract 540.11 — $160,776Census Tract 540.12 — $137,813Census Tract 540.15 — $56,843Census Tract 540.16 — $119,129Census Tract 540.17 — $79,432Census Tract 540.18 — $56,815Census Tract 540.19 — $113,242Census Tract 540.20 — $108,269Census Tract 540.21 — $165,240Census Tract 540.22 — $53,750Census Tract 540.23 — $70,463Census Tract 541.06 — $75,309Census Tract 541.08 — $80,987Census Tract 541.09 — $115,893Census Tract 541.11 — $97,227Census Tract 541.12 — $82,279Census Tract 541.13 — $76,575Census Tract 541.14 — $110,236Census Tract 541.15 — $72,105Census Tract 541.16 — $72,296Census Tract 541.17 — $99,844Census Tract 541.18 — $86,412Census Tract 541.19 — $100,057Census Tract 541.20 — $120,682Census Tract 541.21 — $113,964Census Tract 542.03 — $137,069Census Tract 542.04 — $90,481Census Tract 542.06 — $89,658Census Tract 542.12 — $93,720Census Tract 542.13 — $158,487Census Tract 542.14 — $92,593Census Tract 542.15 — $109,671Census Tract 542.16 — $127,423Census Tract 542.17 — $160,980Census Tract 542.18 — $106,780Census Tract 542.19 — $155,428Census Tract 542.20 — $81,154Census Tract 542.21 — $156,000Census Tract 542.22 — $154,818Census Tract 542.23 — $88,482Census Tract 542.24 — $65,417Census Tract 543.03 — $43,632Census Tract 543.04 — $113,048Census Tract 543.05 — $62,083Census Tract 543.06 — $65,189Census Tract 544.02 — $100,750Census Tract 544.03 — $74,779Census Tract 544.04 — $83,650Census Tract 545.01 — $49,154Census Tract 545.02 — $46,361Census Tract 9801 — no dataCensus Tract 9802 — 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. Drawn from the exact boundaries Vizzie joins your data to, not a picture of them.

How it compares

Wake CountyNorth CarolinaUnited States
Population1,151,00910,584,340332,387,540
Median household income$101,763$69,904$78,538
Median age37.239.138.7
Own their home64%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.