Is Wallburg a good place to live?
Wallburg gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $344K for a typical one, or 5.2 years of the Winston metro’s $66K median household income. It grades A− overall, 27th of 286 graded towns in North Carolina. On the plus side, CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 79% of the country. Wallburg's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 97% of U.S. towns. Only 45 of North Carolina’s 451 towns score lower on the outdoors. Abbott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery and Spurgeon House is on the National Register of Historic Places.
98% of working residents leave Wallburg for work
Where Wallburg’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Wallburg grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Wallburg is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium and 21 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wallburg. Close and well known come first.
10 mi Stadium & arenaAllegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium
7 mi MuseumOld Salem
28 mi MountainPilot Mountain
35 mi Zoo & aquariumNorth Carolina Zoo700K visitors a year
10 mi MuseumReynolda House Museum of American Art
27 mi State parkHanging Rock State ParkPhoto credits
Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium: BobHWS, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Old Salem: David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pilot Mountain: Berean Hunter, CC BY-SA 2.5 · North Carolina Zoo: Diane Villa, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Reynolda House Museum of American Art: Zsrarticle, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hanging Rock State Park: Jacalyn Engler from Greensboro, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0
Moving to Wallburg: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wallburg, 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 Wallburg.
Wallburg has less food insecurity than most of North Carolina and has a longer frost-free season than most of the country, though not than most of North Carolina; it also has little public open land.
Wallburg earns an A− for health
Its widest gap with North Carolina is food insecurity: 9.3% of its 2,413 adults worry about having enough food, against 15.2% statewide.
29% of adults feel lonely in Wallburg, below both North Carolina’s towns (33%) and U.S. towns (33%). 30% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Wallburg. Wallburg beats the North Carolina average on 10 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Wallburg | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 33% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 9.3% | 15% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Wallburg | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.3% | 15.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.6% | 12.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
On state tests, Wallburg’s schools beat 54% of North Carolina districts
Its public schools are run by the Davidson County Schools. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallburg ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 717 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NC on state tests and graduation
With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Wallburg’s workers commute out
Jobs based here grew from 412 in 2013 to 578.
Most working residents leave Wallburg for work: only 2% work in town. 2.4% of residents live below the poverty line in Wallburg, below both the North Carolina town median (13%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Jobs based in Wallburg grew to 578 in 2023, 166 more than in 2013.
| Wallburg | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 2.4% | 13% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Wallburg
The Lexington weather station, 13 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 199 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 83% of North Carolina places with climate records. July afternoons average 88.1°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 77% of North Carolina places with climate records; January nights average 28.7°.
Wallburg has mild winters and warm summers. About 3 inches of snow falls in a winter. The January low in Wallburg is 29°F.
| Wallburg | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 29°F | 31°F | 22°F |
| July high | 88°F | 89°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer young adults than North Carolina overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (23% statewide); people 65 and older are 22% of residents (17% statewide). Wallburg’s median age is 47.2 years. Wallburg has grown 7.8% since 2020, to 3,255 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Wallburg | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 47.2 years | 40.1 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 29% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±7.6 points. Across North Carolina, 51.1% of residents are women.
| Wallburg | NC | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.3% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.6% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.7% | 9.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.1% | 13.4% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.1% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.7% | 12.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.1% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.7% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.7% | 6.9% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.9% | 9.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 34.8% | 24.8% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.9% | 19.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.2% | 10.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 30.3% | 22.2% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 4.9% | 13.5% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,300, single groups can be off by several points
Moderate risk in Wallburg, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 57% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Wallburg since 2018.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0.2% of Wallburg is conserved land
Just 7 of its 3,560 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Wallburg itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Wallburg Town Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A larger share of households in Wallburg own their home than in the typical North Carolina or U.S. town
98% of Wallburg households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Wallburg
Colleges nearby
11 within 15 miles of the center of Wallburg
About 4 of every 100 Wallburg residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
About Wallburg
Town in North Carolina, United States
Wallburg is a town in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. It was incorporated in 2004. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 3,051.
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- Area
- 5.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 928 ft
- ZIP code
- 27373
- Area code
- 336
Questions about Wallburg
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Wallburg, NC a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Wallburg grades A− overall, better than 76% of U.S. towns and #27 of 286 in North Carolina. It grades A− for health and B− for schools.
Is Wallburg, NC expensive?
The typical home is worth about $344,000, 3% 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 B.