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Polk County, NC

People
Population19,891B01003
Population, 2020 census19,328P1
Median age54.9B01002
Under 1815.3%B01001
65 and over32.6%B01001
Households8,976B11001
Foreign born4.5%B05002
Money
Median household income$67,758B19013
Median family income$88,974B19113
Per capita income$43,211B19301
Poverty rate14.0%B17001
Unemployment rate5.1%B23025
Civilian labor force9,291B23025
Mean commute (minutes)28.4B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher36.2%B15003
Housing
Housing units11,042B25001
Owner-occupied76.9%B25003
Renters23.1%B25003
Median home value$315,000B25077
Median gross rent$1,178B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic86.6%B03002
Black4.4%B03002
Hispanic or Latino5.6%B03002
Asian0.8%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.1%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 94% of North Carolina's ($72,388); poverty 14.0% against 13.0%; 0.2% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9201.01: 2,768Census Tract 9201.03: 2,900Census Tract 9201.04: 3,332Census Tract 9202.01: 2,849Census Tract 9202.02: 1,915Census Tract 9203.01: 1,130Census Tract 9203.03: 2,202Census Tract 9203.04: 2,795TryonColumbusSaludaZIP 28722: 149 nonprofits, $35,946,903ZIP 28782: 119 nonprofits, $15,538,752ZIP 28773: 35 nonprofits, $2,911,286ZIP 28756: 30 nonprofits, $32,141,024Population (ACS 2020-2024)up to 1,9151,915 to 2,7682,768 to 2,7952,795 to 2,900over 2,900nonprofits (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 Polk County, NC

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits333$86,537,965 revenue (latest return)COOPERRIIS INC ($19,740,903)
Nonprofit contractors17$12,865,860 paid by nonprofitsCAROLINA DREAMS ANESTHESIA PA ($5,616,513)
Form D issuers1Revolutionary, LLC
Political committees4PATRICIA C KOMOROUS
Form 5500 plan sponsors5159 plansST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, INC. (6)
Open Payments recipients59$109,039 industry paymentsBRIAN J. ROSENBERG ($24,362)
Patent and trademark owners5898 patents and marksEAGLEBLADE, LLC (9)
Federal award recipients814$39,611,366 federal awardsPOLK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION ($14,518,607)
State business registrations152LMG EQUINE LLC

Cross-reference: 333 nonprofits for 19,891 residents is 167.4 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $86,537,965 is $4,351 per resident, 14.2% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1GEORGE AZAR MDPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$799,725202411.8x
2WILSON KEMP MDPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$621,51620249.2x
3BRIAN ROSENBURG MDPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$612,16620229.0x
4MICHAEL WILKERSON MDMEDICAL DIRECTORPAVILLON INTERNATIONAL$529,53320247.8x
5JOSH KNOLHOFF MDPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$508,49420247.5x
6MICHELLE FORTUNECEOST LUKES HOSPITAL INC$502,43820237.4x
7GERHARDT WINKEL MD FACSPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$481,36220227.1x
8THOMAS CADIER MD FAAOSPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$465,74620226.9x
9JOHN ROBERTS MDMEDICAL DIRECTORPAVILLON INTERNATIONAL$387,53020225.7x
10THOMAS DASHIELL JR MDPHYSICIANST LUKES PHYSICIAN NETWORK INC$369,85620215.5x

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 $67,758.

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 8 tracts

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

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 9201.043,332$72,0697.2%53.9
Census Tract 9201.032,900$75,00016.0%52.5
Census Tract 9202.012,849$89,3165.1%51.4
Census Tract 9203.042,795$70,57418.0%61.8
Census Tract 9201.012,768$51,40923.2%54.9
Census Tract 9203.032,202$66,7198.3%58.8
Census Tract 9202.021,915$50,11925.8%36.5
Census Tract 9203.011,130$61,2508.9%61.7

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