Seven LakesNC
4,535 people call this town in North Carolina home.
Is Seven Lakes a good place to live?
Seven Lakes’s strongest is health: residents are healthier than 84% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $394K, 4.6 years of the Pinehurst metro’s $86K median household income. What counts against it is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. The overall grade lands at A, 7th of 286 in North Carolina. On that grade it does better than 91% of U.S. towns. The town has 1 place on the National Register. 47% of residents are 65 or older locally, against 18% in North Carolina’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · National Register of Historic Places.
What makes Seven Lakes stand out
Where Seven Lakes beats most towns.
How Seven Lakes grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Seven Lakes is from typical.
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Moving to Seven Lakes: who provides what
Seven Lakes is unincorporated, so Moore 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 Seven Lakes.
Seven Lakes trades lower home prices for longer drives to work and trades workers with Pinehurst and other neighbors.
Seven Lakes’ schools rank ahead of 70% of North Carolina districts
Its one school is below. The public schools here belong to the Moore County Schools. Enrollment at Seven Lakes’s public school: 413 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| West End ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 413 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NC on state tests and graduation
For health, Seven Lakes earns an A−
Among adults in Seven Lakes, 13% report frequent mental distress. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Seven Lakes is ahead of North Carolina on 17 and behind on 4.
| Seven Lakes | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 84% | 80% | 79% |
| What stands out | Seven Lakes | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.9% | 15.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6.5% | 12.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 12.3% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Conserved land covers 0.9% of Seven Lakes
Trails run 4.8 miles in 1 park or preserve. Seven Lakes has one park or preserve, 11 acres in all. Also worth knowing: the density of trails here is 0.5 miles per square mile.
| Seven Lakes | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 3.4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Seven Lakes North park | — | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Seven Lakes has a low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in Seven Lakes than in 69% of U.S. communities. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2018. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 47% come from inland flooding and 17% from tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most working residents commute out of Seven Lakes
Seven Lakes has about as many jobs (1,361) as working residents, but only 83 people both live and work here. The average commute takes 40.3 minutes, against 25.1 across North Carolina.
For Seven Lakes, the average commute is 40 minutes. Just 6% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs here rose by 320, to 1,361. The top destinations are Pinehurst (15%), Southern Pines (9%) and Raleigh (5%).
| Seven Lakes | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 40 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $91,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.8% | 13% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.9% | 6.8% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Homes in Seven Lakes sell for about $430K
Homes are within reach (A− for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 27 miles.
The rent at the middle of the market for Seven Lakes comes to $914 a month. Seven Lakes: 93% of households live in a home they own. Homes in Seven Lakes sold for 97.6% of their list price on average.
| Seven Lakes | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 93% | 67% | 73% |
| Median rent | $914 a month | $1,086 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Seven Lakes
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Seven Lakes
About 4 of every 100 Seven Lakes residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
About Seven Lakes
Census-designated place in North Carolina, United States
Seven Lakes is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,900.
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- Area
- 10 sq mi
- Elevation
- 561 ft
Questions about Seven Lakes
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Seven Lakes, NC a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Seven Lakes grades A overall, better than 91% of U.S. towns and #7 of 286 in North Carolina. It grades A− for health and B+ for schools.
Is Seven Lakes, NC expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $395,000, 19% 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 A−.