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SheetNC-WEDDINGTON-NC · Weddington, NC 13,468 pop · income 98th 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 Weddington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Weddington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Newton · lowest
56,869
Newton · lowest
56,869 median HH income
29.0% of the leader · rank #1
Weddington · this city
196,159
Weddington · this city
196,159 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Wetherington · near
196,167
Wetherington · near
196,167 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Seis Lagos · near
196,184
Seis Lagos · near
196,184 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Westwood Hills · highest
196,250
Westwood Hills · highest
196,250 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Carnelian Bay · near
196,250
Carnelian Bay · near
196,250 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Las Flores CD… · near
196,250
Las Flores CD… · near
196,250 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Weddington on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 13,468.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Weddington places in the 98th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
98th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
48th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Weddington, NC
13,468 people live in Weddington, North Carolina - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $196,159 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.1%. Weddington's housing stock carries a median value of $730,200, and the median resident age is 43.5 years. Educational attainment runs 65.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 1 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Living costs in North Carolina run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts North Carolina at 94.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,161 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in North Carolina run around $215, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 20.5 minutes, with 70.5% driving alone and 24.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 66.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Weddington'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 housing and income to population change to work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Weddington, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Weddington?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Weddington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,271 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.6% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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 does the journey to work look like in Weddington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.5 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Weddington?
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.
Within North Carolina, the closest population matches are Lewisville (13,655 residents, $84,424 income); Newton (13,223 residents, $56,869 income); Anderson Creek (14,021 residents, $86,661 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Troy, MO (13,467 residents); Asbury Lake, FL (13,465 residents); Los Alamos, NM (13,471 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Weddington?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 65.9% 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
4.1%
Bachelor's degree+
65.9%
Matched public schools
1
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Top-decile income · poverty 4.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, North Carolina average
A-
City profile score · Weddington, NC
84/100
4 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.
Household income A+
$196,159
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
65.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Weddington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $196,159
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 65.9%
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.1%
Cost of living: 67/100 (B-) · 94.3 index
How does Weddington compare to other US cities?
Weddington measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income98% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent48% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Weddington 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 Weddington near the bottom of North Carolina's cities
Among the 746 North Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Weddington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Weddington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#4 of 700
99th percentile in North Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 746
0th percentile in North Carolina
Median Home Value
#8 of 708
99th percentile in North Carolina
Poverty Rate
#541 of 746
27th percentile in North Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#31 of 746
96th 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
98th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Weddington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$730,2007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Weddington's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,801 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,716 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.7×, Weddington sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,801 of 15,516 and #1,716 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$196,159Weddington, NC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Weddington, 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 Weddington, NC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)65.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,468
Median Income
$196,159
Median Home Value
$730,200
Median Age
43.5
Poverty Rate
4.1%
Labor force participation
63.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
65.9%
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Weddington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,246 residents
2021
13,503 residents
2022
13,729 residents
2023
14,125 residents
2024
14,408 residents
2025
14,517 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.5 minutes
Drive Alone
70.5%
Carpool
2.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
24.3%
Other
1.1%
Based on 6,481 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 Weddington. 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 Weddington 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 Weddington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Weddington 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, NCES CCD, 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.