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Ashe County, NC

People
Population26,950B01003
Population, 2020 census26,577P1
Median age49.8B01002
Under 1816.9%B01001
65 and over27.2%B01001
Households12,201B11001
Foreign born2.8%B05002
Money
Median household income$56,866B19013
Median family income$73,016B19113
Per capita income$33,675B19301
Poverty rate13.5%B17001
Unemployment rate4.8%B23025
Civilian labor force12,199B23025
Mean commute (minutes)25.3B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher25.9%B15003
Housing
Housing units17,218B25001
Owner-occupied79.4%B25003
Renters20.6%B25003
Median home value$243,100B25077
Median gross rent$859B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic90.8%B03002
Black0.9%B03002
Hispanic or Latino6.0%B03002
Asian0.4%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.2%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 79% of North Carolina's ($72,388); poverty 13.5% against 13.0%; 0.3% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9702: 2,550Census Tract 9703: 2,488Census Tract 9704: 4,739Census Tract 9705.01: 3,217Census Tract 9705.02: 3,044Census Tract 9707.01: 3,829Census Tract 9707.02: 2,480Census Tract 9708.01: 2,239Census Tract 9708.02: 2,364JeffersonWest JeffersonLansingZIP 28694: 90 nonprofits, $18,152,245ZIP 28640: 78 nonprofits, $65,718,537ZIP 28643: 27 nonprofits, $2,259,496ZIP 28684: 24 nonprofits, $1,707,364ZIP 28626: 15 nonprofits, $619,805ZIP 28615: 14 nonprofits, $12,181,996ZIP 28693: 11 nonprofits, $525,707ZIP 28617: 8 nonprofits, $428,317ZIP 28631: 4 nonprofitsZIP 28629: 3 nonprofits, $533,703Population (ACS 2020-2024)up to 2,3642,364 to 2,4882,488 to 3,0443,044 to 3,829over 3,829nonprofits (circle size: how many)

Click an area for its page. Circles are FURP records at their ZIP code's center point, sized by how many. Download this map's areas with their census figures: CSV (center points) · GeoJSON (outlines), ready for Datawrapper, Mapshaper or Google My Maps. Outlines: Census TIGER/Line 2026, simplified.

Places in the county

FURP records in Ashe County, NC

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits274$102,127,170 revenue (latest return)ASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($54,102,275)
Nonprofit contractors24$939,925,021 paid by nonprofitsVANNOY CONSTRUCTION ($868,065,948)
Form D issuers2$33,934,416 amount soldCycle Labs, Inc. ($33,073,848)
Political committees2LUKE MANNING FOR CONGRESS
Form 5500 plan sponsors4156 plansHALCORE GROUP INC (6)
Open Payments recipients78$110,629 industry paymentsBLUE RIDGE PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT MEDICINE INC ($22,270)
Patent and trademark owners4081 patents and marksNext Safety Incorporated (18)
IPO registrants14 filingsGREEN ENVIROTECH HOLDINGS CORP. (4)
Federal award recipients1,155$162,223,240 federal awardsSKYLINE TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORP ($96,395,598)
State business registrations97APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN MORTGAGE, INC.

Cross-reference: 274 nonprofits for 26,950 residents is 101.7 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $102,127,170 is $3,790 per resident, 14.7% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1AYLA A KESSLERPHYSICIAN-MEDICAL ONCOLOGISTASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$764,769202413.4x
2DOUGLAS R TURGEONPHYSICIANASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$583,532202410.3x
3LEAH ANDERSONPHYSICIANASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$522,59120249.2x
4ROBERT S GRAJEWSKIPHYSICIAN-UROLOGISTASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$427,22620247.5x
5OWEN D OKSANENPHYSICIANASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$390,06720206.9x
6KATELAND E BENNETTPHYSICIAN-HOSPITALISTASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$346,89120246.1x
7BRIAN SACHSPHYSICIAN-HOSPITALISTASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$324,08520235.7x
8PHILIP WIEDEMANNEXECUTIVE DIPRECAST PRESTRESSED CONCRETE INSTITUTE CENTRAL REGION$314,31820245.5x
9RONALD W BENFIELD MDPHYSICIANASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$306,31520215.4x
10MELINDA WONSICKPHYSICIANASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC$301,27320235.3x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $56,866.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Form D issuers: biggest by amount sold

Political committees

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

IPO registrants: biggest by filings

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 9 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 97044,739$60,33410.0%48.6
Census Tract 9707.013,829$67,8788.7%50.2
Census Tract 9705.013,217$68,61111.6%48.6
Census Tract 9705.023,044$50,54312.6%45.3
Census Tract 97022,550$46,15616.0%52.5
Census Tract 97032,488$50,40321.4%49.1
Census Tract 9707.022,480$72,3158.2%50.5
Census Tract 9708.022,364$55,29623.9%52.6
Census Tract 9708.012,239$68,28715.8%53.9

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0