Hoopers CreekNC
A town of 1,683.
Is Hoopers Creek a good place to live?
Hoopers Creek’s best subject grades are a B+ for schools and health; its weakest is a C− for incomes. Only 40 of North Carolina’s 451 towns score lower on the outdoors. Hoopers Creek has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Hoopers Creek for work
Where Hoopers Creek’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Hoopers Creek grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Hoopers Creek is from typical.
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Blue Ridge Parkway and 20 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hoopers Creek. Close and well known come first.
7 mi ParkwayBlue Ridge Parkway16.5M visitors a year
Big draw24 mi MountainMount Mitchell
Big draw35 mi National ParkGreat Smoky Mountains National Park11.5M visitors a year
21 mi National forestPisgah National Forest38 mi Theme parkGhost Town in the Sky
10 mi State parkChimney Rock State ParkPhoto credits
Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Mount Mitchell: Unknown, Public domain · Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Scott Basford, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pisgah National Forest: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Chimney Rock State Park: Jmturner, Public domain
Moving to Hoopers Creek: who provides what
Hoopers Creek is unincorporated, so Henderson 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 Hoopers Creek.
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Hoopers Creek’s workers commute out
The mean commuting time for Hoopers Creek comes to 15 minutes. 18% of residents live below the poverty line locally, against 13% in North Carolina’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Employers in Hoopers Creek added 32 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 62. The median commute is under 10 miles.
| Hoopers Creek | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 15 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 13% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Hoopers Creek ranks healthier than two in three of the country’s towns
16% of adults report frequent mental distress in Hoopers Creek, below both the North Carolina town median (17%) and the median of U.S. towns (17%). The town beats the North Carolina average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4. For adults locally, the share who feel lonely is 29%.
| Hoopers Creek | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 33% | 33% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 36% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 34% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 15% | 16% |
| What stands out | Hoopers Creek | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8.6% | 12.2% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 5.8% | 8.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.4% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Compared with most of North Carolina and the rest of the country, a typical July afternoon in Hoopers Creek is cooler
Expect chilly winters and pleasant summers in Hoopers Creek, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 28° and about 10 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Moderate risk in Hoopers Creek, with inland flooding at the top
Of the losses FEMA expects in Hoopers Creek, 54% come from inland flooding and 23% from cold waves. The natural-hazard score from FEMA locally is 46 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Open space protected for good: 0.1% of Hoopers Creek
1.3 miles of trail. For Hoopers Creek, the concentration of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Hoopers Creek | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 3.4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Hoopers Creek sells for about $496K
Among households in Hoopers Creek, 83% live in a home they own. Its rent at the middle of the market is $1,124 a month.
| Hoopers Creek | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 83% | 67% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,124 a month | $1,085 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Hoopers Creek
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Hoopers Creek
About 2 of every 100 Hoopers Creek residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
About Hoopers Creek
Census-designated place in North Carolina, United States
Hoopers Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Hoopers Creek had a population of 1,074.
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- Area
- 7.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 2,159 ft
Hoopers Creek’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Hoopers Creek.
| Town | NC rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoopers Creek | — | — | C | — | B+ | B+ |
| Fletcher | #48 | B+ | C | B | B+ | A |
Hoopers Creek has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Hoopers Creek reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Hoopers Creek with a neighbor →
Questions about Hoopers Creek
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Hoopers Creek, NC expensive?
The typical home is worth about $346,000, 4% 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.