Is Green Level a good place to live?
Green Level earns a D, 239th among North Carolina's 286 graded towns, mostly because of health and incomes. Residents are less healthy than 86% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. The median household income is $56K, and 19% of residents live below the poverty line. One bright spot: natural-hazard risk is low. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. Green Level has 2 places on the National Register. Only 8 of North Carolina’s 331 towns score lower on civic life.
Green Level has grown 62% since 2010
2,100 counted in 2010 and 3,152 in 2020; an estimated 3,409 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 8.1% since 2020, after 50.1% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Green Level grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Green Level is from typical.
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Moving to Green Level: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Green Level, 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 Green Level.
Green Level trades lower home prices for longer drives to work and sends most of its workers to Burlington and beyond.
Compared with most of North Carolina and the rest of the country, more of Green Level’s adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance
20% of Green Level adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance, against 10% in North Carolina’s towns and 8.1% across U.S. towns. 29% of adults worry about having enough food in Green Level. Green Level beats the North Carolina average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 17.
| Green Level | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 15% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 10% | 8.1% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 36% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 34% | 36% |
| What stands out | Green Level | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.2% | 7.9% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 29.2% | 15.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A smaller share of working residents in Green Level work locally than in the typical North Carolina or U.S. town
Green Level has 52 jobs for its 1,313 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 32.6 minutes, against 25.1 across North Carolina.
0.5% of Green Level working residents work locally, where North Carolina’s towns sit at 6.8% and U.S. towns at 8%. Since 2013, Green Level has lost 32 jobs, to 52 in 2023. Green Level’s average trip to work is 33 minutes.
| Green Level | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Median household income | $56,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Green Level, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 68% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Green Level has mild winters and hot summers
Green Level has mild winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 89°, January nights drop to 29° and about 2 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Green Level sell for about $285K
Homes are within reach (B for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 22 miles. At 2.6 years of the Burlington metro’s $66K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 94% of North Carolina towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living.
The median rent in Green Level is $891 a month.
| Green Level | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $891 a month | $1,086 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 67% | 67% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Green Level
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Green Level
About 3 of every 100 Green Level residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
99% of working residents leave Green Level for work
Where Green Level’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Green Level
Town in North Carolina, United States
Green Level is a town in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,156.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 600 ft
- Area code
- 336
Green Level’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Green Level.
| Town | NC rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Level | #239 | D | B | — | C | D |
| Haw River | — | — | B− | C− | C | D |
Haw River has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Green Level reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Green Level with a neighbor →
Questions about Green Level
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Green Level, NC a good place to live?
Green Level grades D overall, better than 10% of U.S. towns and #239 of 286 in North Carolina. It grades D for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Green Level, NC expensive?
The typical home is worth about $168,000, 49% below 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 B.