Anderson Creek, North Carolina

Area Profile

13,927 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Anderson Creek, in Harnett County.

58out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 46% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 11 sources
OpportunityTop 42% of 4,199 cities measured60
Schools3,754th of 4,162 cities measured18
GrowthTop 16% of 4,224 cities measured69
Housing affordabilityTop 19% of 4,218 cities measured77
ClimateTop 38% of 4,225 cities measured73
Physical resilience2,363rd of 4,226 cities measured51
Access3,452nd of 4,226 cities measured77
Economic stability3,814th of 4,226 cities measured30
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.1% and median household income $87,287, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Harnett County, NC, which contains Anderson Creek, rather than for Anderson Creek alone.

In the public schools here, 32% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 18.7 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 1,883 units authorized over the past twelve months, 28% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Harnett County, NC, which contains Anderson Creek, rather than for Anderson Creek alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
13,927
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$87,287
Top 27% nationally
Density
688/sq mi
20.2 sq mi of land
Median age
31.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
North Carolina
Nearest major airport
RDU
43 mi · Raleigh-Durham Intl
Median home value
$282,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Harnett County, NC, which contains Anderson Creek, is 4.1%, lower than in 58% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Harnett County, NC, which contains Anderson Creek, fell 1.5% over the past year, to 56,325 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 76% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsHarnett County, NC’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$60,66329th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftHarnett County, NC’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$55,64816th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$6,9182024 ACS 5-Year$87,287Top 27%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,0842024 ACS 5-Year$34,885Top 47%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year15.0%Bottom 35%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year35.5 minBottom 15%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year35.0%Top 24%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year84.7%75th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentHarnett County, NC’s figureJuly 202656,325Bottom 49%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Harnett County, NC’s figureJuly 2026+0.8%Top 34%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Harnett County, NC’s figureJuly 2026−1.5%Bottom 33%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceHarnett County, NC’s figureJuly 202658,75349th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year70.2%Bottom 27%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Harnett County, NC’s figureJuly 2026−0.3%Top 36%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateHarnett County, NC’s figureJuly 20264.1%Top 42%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year9.2%57th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202487k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $87,287 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Harnett County, NC, which contains this city.

32% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 42% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.7 students for every full-time teacher across 7 public schools, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
31.5%
Bottom 6% in North Carolina
Reading proficiency
42.4%
Bottom 31% in North Carolina
All 7 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Overhills HighHarnett County Schools1,98127.133%47%
Overhills ElementaryHarnett County Schools86616.331%41%
Overhills MiddleHarnett County Schools75815.832%41%
William T Brown ElementaryCumberland County Schools56217.032%42%
Spring Lake MiddleCumberland County Schools50014.315%28%
Anderson Creek Academy · charterAnderson Creek Academy30515.352%57%
Manchester ElementaryCumberland County Schools25414.927%27%

66.1% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against North Carolina’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the non-metropolitan parts of North Carolina is up 57% over five years, and up 3.4% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,881 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.67% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $980, below the $1,251 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $980 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $39,200 a year, about 45% of the median household income here of $87,287.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,251 a month.

A median home at $282,200 costs 2.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $98,856, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
27.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$980
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,251
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$282,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Anderson Creek’s median household income of $87,287, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price change (1 year)the non-metropolitan parts of North Carolina’s figure2026 Q2+3.4%54th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the non-metropolitan parts of North Carolina’s figure2026 Q2+57.2%92nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the non-metropolitan parts of North Carolina’s figure2026 Q2+113.0%81st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year2.9Bottom 38%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year70.5%39th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3482024 ACS 5-Year5,23389th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$810Top 8%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,363Top 11%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$980Top 7%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1762024 ACS 5-Year$1,251Bottom 29%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,8892024 ACS 5-Year$282,20070th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1122024 ACS 5-Year$1,88153rd percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$8,0542024 ACS 5-Year$98,856Top 28%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.06%2024 ACS 5-Year0.67%26th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year27.9%Top 48%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±212024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year12.6%73rd percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1732024 ACS 5-Year65992nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures.

Development Momentum

69/ 100
Top 16% of 4,224 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 1,883 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Harnett County, NC, which contains Anderson Creek, rather than for Anderson Creek alone.

Federal tax returns show Harnett County, which contains Anderson Creek, gained about 2.3% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $60,663, above the $55,648 of households that moved out.

At 13.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Harnett County, NC, which contains Anderson Creek, rather than for Anderson Creek alone.

Units permitted
1,883
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
13.5
Top 6% nationally
Year over year
−28%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+2.3%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
40%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$60,663
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$55,648
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Wake County, NC 2,837 people · 21% of arrivals
  2. Cumberland County, NC 1,692 people · 12% of arrivals
  3. Lee County, NC 907 people · 6.6% of arrivals
  4. Johnston County, NC 829 people · 6.0% of arrivals
  5. Moore County, NC 244 people · 1.8% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Cumberland County, NC 1,569 people · 14% of departures
  2. Wake County, NC 1,145 people · 10% of departures
  3. Johnston County, NC 712 people · 6.4% of departures
  4. Lee County, NC 634 people · 5.7% of departures
  5. Moore County, NC 391 people · 3.5% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Harnett County, NC. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Anderson Creek, NC is not one. This is the figure for Harnett County, NC, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 34°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 44.6 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FAYETTEVILLE RGNL AP, 20.3 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals44.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals38°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

51 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 45% of it. Inland flooding and tornado are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

HurricaneElevated
Ice stormModerate
EarthquakeModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, winter weather, heat wave, lightning, inland flooding, wildfire, hail, cold wave, strong wind, drought, coastal flooding, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Harnett County has a modeled homicide rate of about 5.8 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 18.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 18.4 per 100,000 residents in Harnett County.

Homicide
5.8
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
18.4
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
18.4
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
18.4
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Anderson Creek (Harnett County) rather than Anderson Creek itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Cost of living
Price parities are published for metropolitan areas, and this place lies outside one.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. Cost of living is published where the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures it, though not for this place. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Raleigh-Durham Intl at 43 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year83.4%Bottom 27%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle43 miBottom 17%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle4Bottom 38%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year4.6%Top 34%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Raleigh-Durham IntlRDU43 mi10,000 ft
Kinston Rgnl Jetport At Stallings FldISO76 mi11,498 ft
Piedmont Triad IntlGSO79 mi10,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Anderson Creek, NC

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CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Anderson Creek

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Anderson Creek with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
2839024,000$62,972$219,00056