BarbecueNC
A town of 5,910.
Is Barbecue a good place to live?
Barbecue’s best subject grades are a B+ for incomes and cost of living; its weakest is a C for walkability. Only 36 of North Carolina’s 451 towns score lower on the outdoors. Barbecue has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
99% of working residents leave Barbecue for work
Where Barbecue’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Barbecue grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Barbecue is from typical.
Barbecue has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Barbecue: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Barbecue, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Barbecue.
With only 0.3 jobs per working resident, most people in Barbecue work out of town
Barbecue’s average trip to work is 36 minutes. It had 534 jobs in 2023, up 113 from 2013. The share of residents in Barbecue who live below the poverty line: 3.9%. 1.1% of working residents work locally in the town, below both North Carolina’s towns (6.8%) and U.S. towns (8%).
| Barbecue | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 36 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 3.9% | 13% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 6.8% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Barbecue’s schools rank behind 64% of North Carolina districts
The Harnett County Schools runs its public schools. One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The 2 public schools in Barbecue teach 1,616 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 854 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NC on state tests and graduation
Expect mild winters and hot summers in Barbecue
Barbecue’s typical July afternoon high stands at 90°F, where North Carolina’s towns sit at 89°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Barbecue faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Compared with 53% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Barbecue is higher. 44% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 20%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0% of Barbecue is conserved land
1.1 miles of trail. Barbecue’s trail network density stands at 0.2 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Barbecue
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Barbecue
About 8 of every 100 Barbecue residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
About Barbecue
Unincorporated community in North Carolina, US
Barbecue is an unincorporated community located in the Barbecue Township of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States. It is a part of the Dunn micropolitan area, which is also a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary combined statistical area as defined by the United States Census Bureau.
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Barbecue’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Barbecue.
| Town | NC rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbecue | — | — | B+ | — | C+ | — |
| Spout Springs | #149 | C | D | — | C+ | A |
Barbecue and Spout Springs report no FBI crime data of their own. Barbecue isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Barbecue with a neighbor →
Questions about Barbecue
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Barbecue, NC a good place to live?
Barbecue has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Is Barbecue, NC expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $220,000. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.