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SheetNC-HIGH-POINT-NC · High Point, NC 115,263 pop · income 37th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around High Point
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest High Point on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Greenville · lowest
50,564
Greenville · lowest
50,564 median HH income
42.2% of the leader · rank #1
Holly · near
61,221
Holly · near
61,221 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #2
Roseville · near
61,222
Roseville · near
61,222 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #3
Inverness Hig… · near
61,224
Inverness Hig… · near
61,224 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #4
High Point · this city
61,228
High Point · this city
61,228 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #5
Dalton · near
61,236
Dalton · near
61,236 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #6
League City · highest
119,870
League City · highest
119,870 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for High Point on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 115,263.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
High Point - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, High Point lands in the 37th percentile for household income and the 17th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
37th
percentile, household income
46th
percentile, home value
48th
percentile, median rent
17th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: High Point, NC
North Carolina's High Point is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 115,263 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in High Point report a median income of $61,228 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.9%. Typical homes in High Point are valued around $212,400, and the median resident age is 37.8 years. 33.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,310 residential building permits were authorized in High Point (Building Boom), up 222% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. High Point's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2910.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts High Point's yearly average temperature at 61.0°F with 48.3 inches of precipitation per year and 1.9 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in North Carolina run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, North Carolina scores 94.3 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,161 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts North Carolina's average monthly utility costs around $215 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 66.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of High Point's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from population change to climate and hazard context to housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For High Point, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is High Point growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,849 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,310 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
What physical conditions frame life in High Point?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.0°F, with 48.3 inches of precipitation and 1.9 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for North Carolina is 66.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
How far does income reach against housing in High Point?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for High Point?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within North Carolina, the closest population matches are Wilmington (118,578 residents, $63,900 income); Concord (106,518 residents, $84,752 income); Asheville (94,369 residents, $67,221 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Richmond, CA (115,396 residents); Manchester, NH (115,415 residents); Westminster, CO (115,546 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in High Point?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
77.0%
Work from home
8.6%
Public transit
0.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 52,315 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in High Point?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2910.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 28% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
2910.8
Violent rate
454.8
Property rate
2456.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for High Point?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 26 public schools within the city match. 33.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
9.9%
Bachelor's degree+
33.9%
Matched public schools
26
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 9.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, North Carolina average
D
City profile score · High Point, NC
44/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B-
94.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share B-
33.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$61,228
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
455 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
High Point profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 67/100 (B-) · 94.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 65/100 (B-) · 33.9%
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.9%
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $61,228
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 455 /100k
Where High Point sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
High Point's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - High Point highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
High Point, NC (this city): home $212,400, crime 2,911/100k
Richmond, CA : home $650,100, crime 3,686/100k
Manchester, NH : home $336,300, crime 1,984/100k
Westminster, CO : home $497,400, crime 3,844/100k
League City, TX : home $334,000, crime 1,264/100k
Lowell, MA : home $395,100, crime 2,195/100k
Antioch, CA : home $607,400, crime 3,800/100k
Wilmington, NC : home $350,300, crime 3,998/100k
Concord, NC : home $327,600, crime 1,264/100k
Asheville, NC : home $411,000, crime 4,691/100k
Greenville, NC : home $213,100, crime 3,367/100k
Gastonia, NC : home $250,000, crime 4,364/100k
How does High Point compare to other US cities?
Where High Point sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income37% higher than other cities
Home value46% pricier than other cities
Median rent48% pricier than other cities
Safety17% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at North Carolina, High Point ranks #107 of 195 North Carolina cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares High Point against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to North Carolina only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
North Carolina-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places High Point near the bottom of North Carolina's cities
Among the 746 North Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, High Point ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares High Point only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#321 of 700
54th percentile in North Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 746
0th percentile in North Carolina
Median Home Value
#303 of 708
57th percentile in North Carolina
Poverty Rate
#362 of 746
51st percentile in North Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#199 of 746
73rd percentile in North Carolina
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within North Carolina only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
37th percentile nationally for median household income · 17th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
High Point's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
High Point's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How High Point's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$212,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 54% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
High Point's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,846 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#207 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.5×, High Point sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,846 of 15,516 and #207 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$61,228High Point, NC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context High Point, NC median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for High Point, NC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
115,263
Median Income
$61,228
Median Home Value
$212,400
Median Age
37.8
Poverty Rate
9.9%
Labor force participation
58.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2910.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
454.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2456.0
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
61.0°F
Annual Precipitation
48.3"
Annual Snowfall
1.9"
Schools
Total Schools
26
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
High Point's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
114,722 residents
2021
115,071 residents
2022
115,625 residents
2023
117,337 residents
2024
118,341 residents
2025
120,571 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,310
housing units authorized
Single-Family
243
detached homes
Multifamily
1,067
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
407
383
24
$59.7M
2020
512
386
126
$60.7M
2021
524
524
0
$91.0M
2022
666
514
152
$124.9M
2023
477
427
50
$101.5M
2024
1,310
243
1,067
$136.9M
Permit volume increased 222% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.0%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
8.6%
Other
2.2%
Based on 52,315 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
North Carolina statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $215
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across North Carolina at $215 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are North Carolina statewide averages, not a meter reading for High Point. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
North Carolina's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.3 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around High Point is $1,161/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to North Carolina statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 66.7 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a North Carolina statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county High Point sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How High Point compares to similar-size North Carolina cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.