Lowgap vs Toast

A side-by-side comparison of Lowgap and Toast: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Toast has the higher population (1,066 vs 226 in Lowgap). Lowgap has the higher median household income ($68,750 vs $33,914 in Toast). Since 2019, Toast's population has grown faster (-31.8% vs -46.8%).

Population, income & housing

	Lowgap	Toast
Population	226	1,066
Median age	46.3 yrs	33.1 yrs
Median household income	$68,750	$33,914
Median home value	—	$93,900
Median gross rent	$706	$857
Housing units	156	566
Homeownership rate	48.5%	74.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	0.0%	17.6%
Unemployment rate	19.8%	3.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Lowgap	Toast
Population	425 → 226 (-46.8%)	1,564 → 1,066 (-31.8%)
Median household income	$77,083 → $68,750 (-10.8%)	$32,011 → $33,914 (+5.9%)
Median home value	—	$94,600 → $93,900 (-0.7%)
Median gross rent	$707 → $706 (-0.1%)	$648 → $857 (+32.3%)

Lowgap

Population

425226

Median household income

$77,083$68,750

Median gross rent

$707$706

Toast

Population

1,5641,066

Median household income

$32,011$33,914

Median home value

$94,600$93,900

Median gross rent

$648$857

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Lowgap	Toast
Under 5	4.9%	5.7%
5 to 17	18.6%	21.6%
18 to 24	8.8%	12.0%
25 to 34	15.0%	13.9%
35 to 44	0.0%	9.6%
45 to 54	14.2%	11.8%
55 to 64	23.9%	7.6%
65 to 74	2.7%	9.9%
75 and over	11.9%	7.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Lowgap	Toast
White (non-Hispanic)	74.8%	66.5%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.4%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	11.7%
Hispanic or Latino	25.2%	21.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Lowgap	Toast
No high school diploma	17.6%	10.8%
High school graduate	37.9%	17.5%
Some college or associate's	44.4%	54.1%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	17.6%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Lowgap	Toast
Drove alone	59.3%	79.8%
Carpooled	40.7%	5.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	15.3%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Lowgap	Toast
1-unit, detached	83.3%	62.4%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	5.5%
5 to 19 units	12.8%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	3.8%	32.2%

Poverty & households

	Lowgap	Toast
Poverty rate	0.0%	12.0%
Average household size	3.32	2.27
Mean commute (minutes)	51	14
Median year structure built	1947	1965