Deercroft vs Laurel Hill

A side-by-side comparison of Deercroft and Laurel Hill: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Laurel Hill has the higher population (916 vs 419 in Deercroft). Deercroft has the higher median household income ($83,409 vs $26,250 in Laurel Hill). Deercroft has the higher median home value ($289,600 vs $90,500 in Laurel Hill).

Population, income & housing

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
Population	419	916
Median age	57.3 yrs	35.5 yrs
Median household income	$83,409	$26,250
Median home value	$289,600	$90,500
Median gross rent	—	$1,066
Housing units	216	495
Homeownership rate	81.1%	58.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.2%	8.4%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	16.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
Population	482 → 419 (-13.1%)	1,194 → 916 (-23.3%)
Median household income	$83,438 → $83,409 (-0.0%)	$26,161 → $26,250 (+0.3%)
Median home value	$210,000 → $289,600 (+37.9%)	$81,000 → $90,500 (+11.7%)
Median gross rent	—	$797 → $1,066 (+33.8%)

Deercroft

Population

482419

Median household income

$83,438$83,409

Median home value

$210,000$289,600

Laurel Hill

Population

1,194916

Median household income

$26,161$26,250

Median home value

$81,000$90,500

Median gross rent

$797$1,066

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
Under 5	0.0%	3.2%
5 to 17	9.3%	26.4%
18 to 24	8.4%	7.9%
25 to 34	10.3%	12.0%
35 to 44	14.8%	14.3%
45 to 54	4.8%	6.7%
55 to 64	14.3%	7.2%
65 to 74	26.5%	15.5%
75 and over	11.7%	6.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	77.3%	34.8%
Black or African American	11.5%	24.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	20.4%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	5.8%
Two or more races	0.0%	14.3%
Hispanic or Latino	11.2%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
No high school diploma	8.1%	16.6%
High school graduate	5.8%	31.6%
Some college or associate's	58.8%	43.5%
Bachelor's degree	11.0%	6.8%
Graduate or professional degree	16.2%	1.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
Drove alone	91.6%	70.3%
Carpooled	0.0%	28.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	1.8%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.4%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
1-unit, detached	100.0%	59.2%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.8%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	40.0%

Poverty & households

	Deercroft	Laurel Hill
Poverty rate	0.0%	40.9%
Average household size	2.03	2.63
Mean commute (minutes)	—	29
Median year structure built	1987	1980