Bent Creek vs Biltmore Forest

A side-by-side comparison of Bent Creek and Biltmore Forest: population, income, housing, and more.

Bent Creek and Biltmore Forest are places in North Carolina. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Bent Creek has the higher population (1,854 vs 1,536 in Biltmore Forest). Biltmore Forest has the higher median household income ($172,500 vs $52,485 in Bent Creek). Biltmore Forest has the higher median home value ($1,249,000 vs $377,500 in Bent Creek).

Population, income & housing

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
Population	1,854	1,536
Median age	43.6 yrs	52.1 yrs
Median household income	$52,485	$172,500
Median home value	$377,500	$1,249,000
Median gross rent	$1,914	—
Housing units	719	782
Homeownership rate	78.7%	97.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.6%	85.3%
Unemployment rate	22.0%	1.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
Population	1,666 → 1,854 (+11.3%)	1,473 → 1,536 (+4.3%)
Median household income	$83,324 → $52,485 (-37.0%)	$180,781 → $172,500 (-4.6%)
Median home value	$245,900 → $377,500 (+53.5%)	$910,400 → $1,249,000 (+37.2%)
Median gross rent	—	$1,083 → $1,583 (+46.2%)

Bent Creek

Population

1,6661,854

Median household income

$83,324$52,485

Median home value

$245,900$377,500

Biltmore Forest

Population

1,4731,536

Median household income

$180,781$172,500

Median home value

$910,400$1,249,000

Median gross rent

$1,083$1,583

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
Under 5	5.5%	4.5%
5 to 17	14.4%	16.6%
18 to 24	10.0%	9.0%
25 to 34	3.4%	2.2%
35 to 44	22.6%	5.9%
45 to 54	20.5%	15.2%
55 to 64	6.4%	14.6%
65 to 74	5.2%	17.3%
75 and over	11.9%	14.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
White (non-Hispanic)	98.5%	97.7%
Black or African American	0.1%	0.2%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.1%	0.7%
Hispanic or Latino	1.4%	1.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
No high school diploma	12.6%	1.3%
High school graduate	27.1%	2.0%
Some college or associate's	23.6%	11.4%
Bachelor's degree	28.1%	40.0%
Graduate or professional degree	8.5%	45.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
Drove alone	71.7%	70.4%
Carpooled	2.4%	5.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	6.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.5%
Worked from home	19.7%	24.1%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
1-unit, detached	77.5%	97.7%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	1.7%
2 to 4 units	1.1%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	7.6%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	13.8%	0.6%

Poverty & households

	Bent Creek	Biltmore Forest
Poverty rate	11.8%	2.4%
Average household size	2.88	2.69
Mean commute (minutes)	17	18
Median year structure built	1977	1959