Kingstown vs Lawndale

A side-by-side comparison of Kingstown and Lawndale: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Lawndale has the higher population (585 vs 499 in Kingstown). Lawndale has the higher median household income ($31,691 vs $31,625 in Kingstown). Lawndale has the higher median home value ($105,600 vs $87,100 in Kingstown).

Population, income & housing

	Kingstown	Lawndale
Population	499	585
Median age	50.4 yrs	36.0 yrs
Median household income	$31,625	$31,691
Median home value	$87,100	$105,600
Median gross rent	$833	$827
Housing units	286	294
Homeownership rate	73.7%	64.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	6.6%	10.1%
Unemployment rate	10.4%	4.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Kingstown	Lawndale
Population	492 → 499 (+1.4%)	769 → 585 (-23.9%)
Median household income	$41,667 → $31,625 (-24.1%)	$34,531 → $31,691 (-8.2%)
Median home value	$83,300 → $87,100 (+4.6%)	$75,000 → $105,600 (+40.8%)
Median gross rent	$668 → $833 (+24.7%)	$755 → $827 (+9.5%)

Kingstown

Population

492499

Median household income

$41,667$31,625

Median home value

$83,300$87,100

Median gross rent

$668$833

Lawndale

Population

769585

Median household income

$34,531$31,691

Median home value

$75,000$105,600

Median gross rent

$755$827

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Kingstown	Lawndale
Under 5	3.2%	3.4%
5 to 17	15.0%	22.7%
18 to 24	9.4%	9.7%
25 to 34	2.6%	10.8%
35 to 44	9.8%	12.0%
45 to 54	14.4%	6.0%
55 to 64	9.4%	24.1%
65 to 74	29.1%	5.8%
75 and over	7.0%	5.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Kingstown	Lawndale
White (non-Hispanic)	11.6%	78.5%
Black or African American	85.2%	10.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	1.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.2%	5.6%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	3.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Kingstown	Lawndale
No high school diploma	13.9%	12.3%
High school graduate	47.9%	44.8%
Some college or associate's	31.6%	32.8%
Bachelor's degree	4.7%	9.6%
Graduate or professional degree	1.9%	0.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Kingstown	Lawndale
Drove alone	80.5%	89.1%
Carpooled	17.4%	10.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	1.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	2.1%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Kingstown	Lawndale
1-unit, detached	96.5%	72.4%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	5.1%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	3.5%	22.4%

Poverty & households

	Kingstown	Lawndale
Poverty rate	24.4%	22.1%
Average household size	2.02	2.58
Mean commute (minutes)	26	26
Median year structure built	1975	1957