Advance vs Cooleemee

A side-by-side comparison of Advance and Cooleemee: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Advance has the higher population (1,544 vs 984 in Cooleemee). Advance has the higher median household income ($109,402 vs $49,135 in Cooleemee). Advance has the higher median home value ($358,500 vs $134,200 in Cooleemee).

Population, income & housing

	Advance	Cooleemee
Population	1,544	984
Median age	39.2 yrs	34.9 yrs
Median household income	$109,402	$49,135
Median home value	$358,500	$134,200
Median gross rent	$865	$964
Housing units	620	490
Homeownership rate	81.8%	74.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	31.8%	17.0%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	4.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Advance	Cooleemee
Population	1,158 → 1,544 (+33.3%)	1,040 → 984 (-5.4%)
Median household income	$81,250 → $109,402 (+34.6%)	$49,375 → $49,135 (-0.5%)
Median home value	$245,000 → $358,500 (+46.3%)	$85,000 → $134,200 (+57.9%)
Median gross rent	$843 → $865 (+2.6%)	$972 → $964 (-0.8%)

Advance

Population

1,1581,544

Median household income

$81,250$109,402

Median home value

$245,000$358,500

Median gross rent

$843$865

Cooleemee

Population

1,040984

Median household income

$49,375$49,135

Median home value

$85,000$134,200

Median gross rent

$972$964

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Advance	Cooleemee
Under 5	7.8%	7.0%
5 to 17	23.3%	19.0%
18 to 24	8.9%	7.5%
25 to 34	5.3%	16.7%
35 to 44	16.0%	11.6%
45 to 54	11.9%	10.5%
55 to 64	16.3%	12.5%
65 to 74	8.5%	10.2%
75 and over	2.1%	5.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Advance	Cooleemee
White (non-Hispanic)	80.7%	66.9%
Black or African American	9.3%	10.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	1.3%
Asian	2.3%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	6.2%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	16.6%
Hispanic or Latino	1.6%	4.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Advance	Cooleemee
No high school diploma	0.0%	8.3%
High school graduate	27.9%	31.8%
Some college or associate's	40.3%	43.0%
Bachelor's degree	26.5%	13.0%
Graduate or professional degree	5.3%	4.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Advance	Cooleemee
Drove alone	81.1%	82.7%
Carpooled	11.1%	12.5%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.2%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	7.8%	0.9%
Other means	0.0%	3.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Advance	Cooleemee
1-unit, detached	93.2%	95.1%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	4.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	2.7%	4.9%

Poverty & households

	Advance	Cooleemee
Poverty rate	5.6%	11.1%
Average household size	3.12	2.39
Mean commute (minutes)	34	32
Median year structure built	1997	1938