Stallings, North Carolina

Area Profile

16,886 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Stallings, in Union County.

67out of 100
Area Score
Top 24% of 4,203 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 16 sources
OpportunityTop 32% of 4,206 cities measured65
SchoolsTop 17% of 4,162 cities measured76
GrowthTop 18% of 4,224 cities measured68
Housing affordabilityTop 33% of 4,225 cities measured72
ClimateTop 26% of 4,225 cities measured76
Physical resilience2,935th of 4,226 cities measured38
Access2,206th of 4,226 cities measured92
Economic stabilityTop 3% of 4,226 cities measured81
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.4% and median household income $115,974, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 64% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 17% of published profiles for schools. Math proficiency is published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings alone.

2,567 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 5% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings 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
16,886
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$115,974
Top 11% nationally
Density
1,999/sq mi
8.4 sq mi of land
Median age
40.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
North Carolina
Nearest major airport
CLT
18 mi · Charlotte/Douglas Intl
Median home value
$428,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, is 3.4%, lower than in 84% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, fell 1.9% over the past year, to 127,229 employed residents.

54% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 91% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $115,974 is higher than in 89% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsUnion County, NC’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$101,18682nd percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftUnion County, NC’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$91,45476th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$10,6272024 ACS 5-Year$115,974Top 11%of 29,3262024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,8472024 ACS 5-Year$56,124Top 12%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year4.6%Top 22%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year29.9 minBottom 34%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year53.7%Top 9%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year66.6%21st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentUnion County, NC’s figureJuly 2026127,229Top 39%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Union County, NC’s figureJuly 2026−1.9%Bottom 26%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Union County, NC’s figureJuly 2026−1.9%Bottom 23%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceUnion County, NC’s figureJuly 2026131,72860th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year89.7%Top 11%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageCharlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$68,900Top 49%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageCharlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$49,990Bottom 40%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%74th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Union County, NC’s figureJuly 2026−0.2%Top 44%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateUnion County, NC’s figureJuly 20263.4%Top 16%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year25.3%92nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024116k98k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $115,974 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.

Largest occupations — Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand40,540$38,850
Retail Salespersons35,150$33,580
Cashiers27,350$29,610
Fast Food and Counter Workers27,050$28,880
Registered Nurses27,010$90,620
Customer Service Representatives26,120$44,980

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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

64% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 61% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings alone.

There are 16.7 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings alone.

Public schools
—
Students per teacher
16.7
Math proficiency
63.6%
Top 13% in North Carolina
Reading proficiency
60.8%
Top 17% in North Carolina

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Union County, NC: too few schools in Stallings reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly.

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.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 3% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 97.3, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area is up 50% over five years, and up 1.5% 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 $2,740 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.64% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,040, some 8% above the $1,882 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,040 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $81,600 a year, about 70% of the median household income here of $115,974.

The typical renter household here spends 27% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,882 a month.

A median home at $428,000 costs 3.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $119,406, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
97.3

Prices here run about 3% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
27.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,040
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,882
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$428,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Stallings’s median household income of $115,974, 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
Cost of living indexthe Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area’s figure202397.3Top 34%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+1.5%30th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+49.9%78th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+124.2%91st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.6Bottom 23%of 26,9012024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year87.5%74th percentileof 31,8402024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3022024 ACS 5-Year6,66691st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,860Bottom 24%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,510Bottom 35%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,040Bottom 31%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$2762024 ACS 5-Year$1,882Bottom 10%of 23,2172024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,6232024 ACS 5-Year$428,00084th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1332024 ACS 5-Year$2,74069th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$10,1872024 ACS 5-Year$119,406Top 16%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.04%2024 ACS 5-Year0.64%23rd percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year27.2%Top 43%of 23,0522024 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-Year2.8%25th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1112024 ACS 5-Year18576th 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 and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

68/ 100
Top 18% 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.

Population has grown 9% since 2020, reaching 17,617 in 2024.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 17,617 residents in 2024, up 1.9% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 2,567 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 11% are in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings alone.

Federal tax returns show Union County, which contains Stallings, gained about 1.9% 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 $101,186, above the $91,454 of households that moved out.

At 10.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Union County, NC, which contains Stallings, rather than for Stallings alone.

Units permitted
2,567
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
10.2
Top 11% nationally
Year over year
−5%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
10.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202418k16k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+1.9%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
48%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$101,186
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$91,454
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Mecklenburg County, NC 6,018 people · 38% of arrivals
  2. Cabarrus County, NC 455 people · 2.9% of arrivals
  3. Lancaster County, SC 417 people · 2.6% of arrivals
  4. York County, SC 318 people · 2.0% of arrivals
  5. Anson County, NC 236 people · 1.5% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Mecklenburg County, NC 3,351 people · 29% of departures
  2. Lancaster County, SC 702 people · 6.0% of departures
  3. Cabarrus County, NC 349 people · 3.0% of departures
  4. York County, SC 327 people · 2.8% of departures
  5. Stanly County, NC 324 people · 2.8% 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 Union 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 Stallings, NC is not one. This is the figure for Union County, NC, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

7 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 32°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MONROE AP, 6.8 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND3.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year542024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals37.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals32°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year02024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year412024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals37°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
54
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

38 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and earthquake, with inland flooding alone responsible for 67% of it. tornado is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

Ice stormModerate
Inland floodingElevated
EarthquakeModerate
LightningModerate
HurricaneModerate

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

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.

Violent crime
39
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
539
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Stallings's police department reported 39 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, lower than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 539.

Union County has a modeled homicide rate of about 4.5 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.1 per 100,000 residents in Union County.

Homicide
4.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.4
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
10.1
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
9.0
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.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Stallings’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. 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 Stallings (Union County) rather than Stallings itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and 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.

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. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Charlotte/Douglas Intl at 18 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year96.7%Top 17%of 31,7112024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle18 miBottom 49%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 20%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±0.9%2024 ACS 5-Year1.5%Top 17%of 31,7112024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Charlotte/Douglas IntlCLT18 mi10,000 ft
Piedmont Triad IntlGSO79 mi10,001 ft
Columbia MetroCAE85 mi8,601 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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
CharlotteMecklenburg County903,84459Charlotte vs Stallings
ConcordCabarrus County108,71960Concord vs Stallings
GastoniaGaston County82,88458Gastonia vs Stallings
Rock HillYork County75,25967
HuntersvilleMecklenburg County63,96966
KannapolisCabarrus County57,89054
MooresvilleIredell County52,38165
Indian TrailUnion County42,03666
MonroeUnion County36,75961
SalisburyRowan County35,82553
CorneliusMecklenburg County32,78366
Fort MillYork County30,77581

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
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
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
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 September 26, 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.