Myrtle GroveNC
The town has 12,637 residents and lies in North Carolina.
What should you know before moving to Myrtle Grove?
A strong record with one exception. Myrtle Grove grades B+ overall and ranks 44th of 286 in North Carolina. Nationally, it does better than 67% of U.S. towns. Its best grade is for health: residents are healthier than 90% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. It is strong on incomes as well: the median household earns $113K. The catch is hazard risk (D−): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 94% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Cost of living is weaker too: the typical home is worth about $439K, 5.7 years of the Wilmington metro’s $76K median household income. The biggest park or preserve is Coastal Mangement-Masonboro Estaurine Resource Pre, at 37 acres.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · home values, Zillow · OpenStreetMap.
What makes Myrtle Grove stand out
Where Myrtle Grove beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Myrtle Grove has grown 29% from 2010 to 2020
8,875 counted in 2010 and 11,476 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Myrtle Grove grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Myrtle Grove is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Fort Fisher and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Myrtle Grove. Close and well known come first.
11 mi LandmarkFort Fisher
6 mi GardenOrton Plantation
7 mi MuseumBrunswick Town7 mi GardenAirlie Gardens
26 mi National BattlefieldMoores Creek National Battlefield56K visitors a year
8 mi TheatreThalian HallPhoto credits
Fort Fisher: Eric T. Gunther, CC BY 3.0 · Orton Plantation: AgnosticPreachersKid., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Brunswick Town: Brunswick1726, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Moores Creek National Battlefield: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Thalian Hall: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Myrtle Grove: who provides what
Myrtle Grove is unincorporated, so New Hanover 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 Myrtle Grove.
Myrtle Grove has less food insecurity than most of North Carolina, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of North Carolina (mostly hurricanes) and has little public open land.
Myrtle Grove’s grade for health is an A
Its widest gap with North Carolina is food insecurity: 7.7% of its 9,034 adults worry about having enough food, against 15.2% statewide. That grade tops all 3 graded neighbors; Sea Breeze (A−) comes closest.
Among adults in Myrtle Grove, 18% get no exercise outside work. 14% of Myrtle Grove adults report frequent mental distress, below both North Carolina’s towns (17%) and U.S. towns (17%). The town beats the North Carolina average on 15 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Myrtle Grove | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 36% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Myrtle Grove | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.7% | 15.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6.8% | 12.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.4% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Myrtle Grove’s public schools outperform 63% of North Carolina districts
Below: Two of its 5 schools, each with why it was picked. The public schools here belong to the New Hanover County Schools. Also worth knowing: 2 public schools serve Myrtle Grove, with 820 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Grove MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 600 | B− |
| Coastal Christian High School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 294 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NC on state tests and graduation
Myrtle Grove faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 85% of North Carolina towns, with expected losses of about $1,007 per resident a year; that rating is what its D− for hazard risk is built on.
Flood insurance has paid out on 217 claims in Myrtle Grove since 1987. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 70% come from hurricanes and 17% from inland flooding.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Myrtle Grove’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.5 jobs for each of them
Jobs based here grew from 1,481 in 2013 to 2,485.
For Myrtle Grove, the average commute is 20 minutes. Most working residents leave Myrtle Grove for work: only 6% work in town. Jobs in Myrtle Grove grew by 1,004 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 2,485. 6.2% of Myrtle Grove residents live below the poverty line, where North Carolina’s towns sit at 13% and U.S. towns at 9.6%.
| Myrtle Grove | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 22% | 12% | 11% |
| Median household income | $113,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 6.2% | 13% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.2% of the land in Myrtle Grove is protected from building
Just 102 of its 4,599 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Myrtle Grove itself; its outdoors grade is D.
Trails total 0.1 miles in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Coastal Mangement-Masonboro Estaurine Resource Pre | — | 37 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Myrtle Grove sells for about $545K
On the market in Myrtle Grove: a median 54 days to sell. The rent at the middle of the market for Myrtle Grove comes to $1,463 a month. Myrtle Grove: 84% of households are owner-occupiers.
| Myrtle Grove | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 84% | 67% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,463 a month | $1,084 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Myrtle Grove
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Myrtle Grove
About 3 of every 100 Myrtle Grove residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
94% of working residents leave Myrtle Grove for work
Where Myrtle Grove’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Myrtle Grove
CDP in North Carolina, United States
Myrtle Grove is a census-designated place (CDP) in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 11,476 at the 2020 census which is up from 8,875 in 2010. Myrtle Grove is located in the statistical townships of Federal Point and Masonboro. The CDP is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Myrtle Grove was first listed as a CDP at the 1980 United States census.
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- Area
- 7.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 23 ft
Myrtle Grove’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Myrtle Grove.
| Town | NC rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Grove | #44 | B+ | C | — | B | A |
| Sea Breeze | — | — | C− | — | B | A− |
| Wilmington | #192 | C− | D | D | B | B+ |
| Silver Lake | #129 | C+ | C | — | B | B |
Sea Breeze has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Myrtle Grove, Sea Breeze and Silver Lake report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Myrtle Grove with a neighbor →
Questions about Myrtle Grove
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Myrtle Grove, NC a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Myrtle Grove grades B+ overall, better than 67% of U.S. towns and #44 of 286 in North Carolina. It grades A for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Myrtle Grove, NC expensive?
The typical home is worth about $439,000, 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.