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Chowan County, NC

People
Population13,836B01003
Population, 2020 census13,708P1
Median age48.6B01002
Under 1819.2%B01001
65 and over26.1%B01001
Households6,134B11001
Foreign born2.3%B05002
Money
Median household income$53,864B19013
Median family income$72,911B19113
Per capita income$35,476B19301
Poverty rate19.1%B17001
Unemployment rate4.1%B23025
Civilian labor force6,392B23025
Mean commute (minutes)27.8B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher25.0%B15003
Housing
Housing units7,190B25001
Owner-occupied70.5%B25003
Renters29.5%B25003
Median home value$235,800B25077
Median gross rent$681B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic60.4%B03002
Black32.4%B03002
Hispanic or Latino4.0%B03002
Asian0.1%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%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 74% of North Carolina's ($72,388); poverty 19.1% against 13.0%; 0.1% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9301.01: 5,144Census Tract 9301.02: 2,096Census Tract 9302.01: 4,569Census Tract 9302.02: 2,027EdentonArrowhead BeachCape ColonyChowan BeachZIP 27932: 147 nonprofits, $37,357,914ZIP 27980: 20 nonprofits, $94,316Population (ACS 2020-2024)up to 2,0272,027 to 2,0962,096 to 4,569over 4,569nonprofits (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 Chowan County, NC

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits167$37,452,230 revenue (latest return)ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC ($26,348,882)
Nonprofit contractors4$8,183,412 paid by nonprofitsSTEVENS TOWING ($6,976,307)
Form D issuers2$729,280 amount soldAnova Financial Corp ($679,280)
Political committees1HOLLOWELL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
Form 5500 plan sponsors4355 plansREGULATOR MARINE, INC (7)
Open Payments recipients49$99,881 industry paymentsMICHAEL GAVIGAN ($28,557)
Patent and trademark owners2156 patents and marksSpecialty Seed Co., LLC (18)
Federal award recipients573$398,745,513 federal awardsECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL, INC. ($308,180,665)
State business registrations53MURRAY NIXON FISHERY, INC.

Cross-reference: 167 nonprofits for 13,836 residents is 120.7 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $37,452,230 is $2,707 per resident, 11.3% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1Landon MasonExecutive Dir.ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC$257,86620244.8x
2BRIAN HARVILLTREASURERCHOWAN REGIONAL HEALTH CARE$242,92920184.5x
3Jose TaylorCFOECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL INC$132,58220242.5x
4ROBERT LEATHEXECUTIVE DIEDENTON HISTORICAL COMMISSION$116,00020232.2x
5Susan NixonExecutive DirectorCHOWAN PERQUIMANS SMART START PARTNERSHIP$96,19220241.8x
6ELIZABETH MITCHELLEXECUTIVE DIBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC$81,94620251.5x
7VANN ROGERSONEXECUTIVE DIRECTORNORTH CAROLINAS EASTERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$72,00020221.3x
8GINNY WAFFEXEC DIRECTOCHOWAN REGIONAL HEALTH CARE$67,05320181.2x
9JENNIFER HARRISSDIRECTORDESTINATION DOWNTOWN EDENTON INC$53,86520191.0x
10Dennet L ThomasonPersonnel/Finance OfficerCHOWAN PERQUIMANS SMART START PARTNERSHIP$51,05620200.9x

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 $53,864.

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

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 4 tracts

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

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 9301.015,144$45,14326.0%46.2
Census Tract 9302.014,569$58,75018.0%41.8
Census Tract 9301.022,096$69,6576.2%56.3
Census Tract 9302.022,027$65,78918.1%49.7

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