Cypress LandingNC
A town of 1,044.
Is Cypress Landing a good place to live?
Cypress Landing’s best subject grades are a B+ for health and a B for incomes; its weakest is a D− for hazard risk. 74% of residents are 65 or older in Cypress Landing, against 18% in North Carolina’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns. Of the 291 North Carolina towns we compare, none has a higher midpoint age than Cypress Landing. Cypress Landing’s trail network density is 2.1 miles per square mile, above both the North Carolina town median (0.2) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Cypress Landing has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
1,044 people, and everyone knows the way
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How Cypress Landing grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Cypress Landing is from typical.
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Moving to Cypress Landing: who provides what
Cypress Landing is unincorporated, so Beaufort County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Cypress Landing.
Very high risk in Cypress Landing, with hurricanes at the top
FEMA puts 76% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to hurricanes, and 12% to inland flooding. Cypress Landing’s risk rating from FEMA stands at 95 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Fewer of Cypress Landing’s residents live below the poverty line than in the typical North Carolina or U.S. town
The top destinations are Greenville (16%), Washington (12%) and Rocky Mount (3%). The typical journey to work in Cypress Landing is 18 minutes. Most people who work leave Cypress Landing to do it: just 2% work in town.
| Cypress Landing | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 0.5% | 13% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Median household income | $84,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A smaller share of adults report frequent mental distress in Cypress Landing than in most of North Carolina or the rest of the country
Among 290 North Carolina towns, just 3 have a lower share of adults who sleep under 7 hours than Cypress Landing. For adults locally, the share who feel lonely is 27%. This North Carolina town does better than the North Carolina average on 17 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 8.
| Cypress Landing | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 17% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 15% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 34% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 51% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Cypress Landing | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 4.7% | 12.2% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 3.2% | 8.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 17.4% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Cypress Landing’s year
For Cypress Landing, the July high is 89°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Cypress Landing sell for about $598K
Homes sold in Cypress Landing spent a median 24 days on the market. Of the 291 North Carolina towns we compare, none has a higher share of homes lived in by their owners than Cypress Landing.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Cypress Landing
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Cypress Landing
About 2 of every 100 Cypress Landing residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
98% of working residents leave Cypress Landing for work
Where Cypress Landing’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Questions about Cypress Landing
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cypress Landing, NC expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $440,000, 32% above the North Carolina typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.