Etowah vs Mountain Home

A side-by-side comparison of Etowah and Mountain Home: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Etowah has the higher population (7,765 vs 3,518 in Mountain Home). Etowah has the higher median household income ($73,000 vs $68,750 in Mountain Home). Mountain Home has the higher median home value ($353,200 vs $313,500 in Etowah).

Population, income & housing

	Etowah	Mountain Home
Population	7,765	3,518
Median age	46.2 yrs	52.4 yrs
Median household income	$73,000	$68,750
Median home value	$313,500	$353,200
Median gross rent	$1,442	$1,208
Housing units	3,678	1,643
Homeownership rate	83.5%	66.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	35.5%	40.0%
Unemployment rate	1.7%	0.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Etowah	Mountain Home
Population	7,653 → 7,765 (+1.5%)	4,173 → 3,518 (-15.7%)
Median household income	$56,048 → $73,000 (+30.2%)	$51,384 → $68,750 (+33.8%)
Median home value	$214,700 → $313,500 (+46.0%)	$165,000 → $353,200 (+114.1%)
Median gross rent	$654 → $1,442 (+120.5%)	$781 → $1,208 (+54.7%)

Etowah

Population

7,6537,765

Median household income

$56,048$73,000

Median home value

$214,700$313,500

Median gross rent

$654$1,442

Mountain Home

Population

4,1733,518

Median household income

$51,384$68,750

Median home value

$165,000$353,200

Median gross rent

$781$1,208

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Etowah	Mountain Home
Under 5	5.9%	2.2%
5 to 17	13.0%	10.0%
18 to 24	5.8%	11.7%
25 to 34	11.5%	9.7%
35 to 44	12.3%	8.0%
45 to 54	8.1%	12.7%
55 to 64	16.4%	16.1%
65 to 74	16.4%	15.3%
75 and over	10.6%	14.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Etowah	Mountain Home
White (non-Hispanic)	89.3%	80.7%
Black or African American	1.0%	1.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.5%
Asian	0.3%	1.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	2.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.0%	0.6%
Hispanic or Latino	6.4%	15.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Etowah	Mountain Home
No high school diploma	7.0%	10.1%
High school graduate	24.7%	23.5%
Some college or associate's	32.8%	26.4%
Bachelor's degree	21.9%	29.3%
Graduate or professional degree	13.6%	10.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Etowah	Mountain Home
Drove alone	77.5%	79.9%
Carpooled	15.6%	12.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	6.3%	7.2%
Other means	0.3%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Etowah	Mountain Home
1-unit, detached	80.0%	81.9%
1-unit, attached	1.9%	2.0%
2 to 4 units	3.5%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	14.7%	16.1%

Poverty & households

	Etowah	Mountain Home
Poverty rate	12.8%	13.3%
Average household size	2.46	2.17
Mean commute (minutes)	27	17
Median year structure built	1988	1979