Horse Shoe vs Valley Hill

A side-by-side comparison of Horse Shoe and Valley Hill: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Valley Hill has the higher population (2,540 vs 1,699 in Horse Shoe). Valley Hill has the higher median household income ($87,250 vs $67,703 in Horse Shoe). Horse Shoe has the higher median home value ($396,400 vs $296,500 in Valley Hill).

Population, income & housing

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
Population	1,699	2,540
Median age	53.1 yrs	47.2 yrs
Median household income	$67,703	$87,250
Median home value	$396,400	$296,500
Housing units	814	1,132
Homeownership rate	87.9%	78.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	48.5%	42.3%
Unemployment rate	7.7%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
Population	2,368 → 1,699 (-28.3%)	1,927 → 2,540 (+31.8%)
Median household income	$73,843 → $67,703 (-8.3%)	$66,659 → $87,250 (+30.9%)
Median home value	$258,000 → $396,400 (+53.6%)	$261,700 → $296,500 (+13.3%)
Median gross rent	$860 → $1,075 (+25.0%)	—

Horse Shoe

Population

2,3681,699

Median household income

$73,843$67,703

Median home value

$258,000$396,400

Median gross rent

$860$1,075

Valley Hill

Population

1,9272,540

Median household income

$66,659$87,250

Median home value

$261,700$296,500

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
Under 5	3.8%	12.2%
5 to 17	11.5%	8.8%
18 to 24	4.8%	7.5%
25 to 34	8.2%	5.6%
35 to 44	9.5%	13.1%
45 to 54	13.8%	10.0%
55 to 64	14.5%	21.0%
65 to 74	20.4%	12.3%
75 and over	13.5%	9.4%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	95.4%	83.5%
Black or African American	0.8%	0.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	1.2%
Two or more races	1.4%	0.9%
Hispanic or Latino	2.5%	14.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
No high school diploma	1.9%	4.5%
High school graduate	9.4%	29.2%
Some college or associate's	40.2%	24.0%
Bachelor's degree	33.7%	21.4%
Graduate or professional degree	14.8%	20.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
Drove alone	70.7%	80.0%
Carpooled	9.9%	4.4%
Public transit	3.8%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	15.6%	12.2%
Other means	0.0%	3.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
1-unit, detached	88.6%	87.9%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	4.6%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	2.9%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	11.4%	4.6%

Poverty & households

	Horse Shoe	Valley Hill
Poverty rate	9.1%	9.4%
Average household size	2.26	2.31
Mean commute (minutes)	24	21
Median year structure built	1985	1984