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2025 income · Census CPS ASEC 2026

Household money income in North Carolina

The whole household’s total for the year. Commas, a $ sign, or k and m work.
What counts as household income

Add up the money income of everyone in the household, received on a regular basis before taxes and other deductions: wages and salaries, self-employment income, Social Security, pensions, interest, and similar payments. Leave out capital gains and noncash benefits such as food assistance, health benefits, and subsidized housing. Census money-income definition.

You, among 100 North Carolina households
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Each tick is one household in 100, from lowest to highest 2025 income. The curve above them is what each one made, on a scale that spreads out the lower incomes. Incomes above the 95th percentile are not drawn.

North Carolina among the 50 states and D.C.

#39 of 51 by median household income.

US $87,288NC
MS $58kMA $118k
The 50 states and D.C., sorted by 2025 median household income, lowest at left. The bracket spans North Carolina and the 6 states whose medians are within Census’s ±$2,910 standard error for North Carolina, so read the rank as a neighborhood rather than an exact place.
North Carolina median
$80,000

Census’s published estimate is $80,250, with a standard error of $2,910.

Gap to the US median
−$7,288

The US median is $87,288, so the North Carolina median is 8.3% below it.

North Carolina median at US-average prices
$84,812

Prices in North Carolina were 94.3 in 2024 on the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s regional price parities (US = 100), so its median buys about what $84,812 does at US-average prices. With every US household adjusted for its own state’s prices, the US median is $88,213.

Top 10% of North Carolina households starts at
$223,328

Nationally, the top 10% starts at $261,248.

Source: Census CPS ASEC 2026 · income year 2025 · 1,237 North Carolina households in the sample (53,344 US) · above the 95th percentile not ranked · prices: BEA regional price parities, 2024 · SHA-256 fe819d0d…7d93

North Carolina household income ladder

PercentileNorth CarolinaUnited States
p10$19,155$20,005
p25$40,000$43,708
p50 (median)$80,000$87,288
p75$138,381$159,510
p90$223,328$261,248
p95$316,050$354,000

Reading the upper percentiles: this table stops at p95. State samples are smaller than the national sample, so treat positions near the top as broad bands, not exact cutoffs. The calculator does not compute replicate-weight confidence intervals.

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