Blowing Rock vs Boone

A side-by-side comparison of Blowing Rock and Boone: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Boone has the higher population (19,534 vs 848 in Blowing Rock). Blowing Rock has the higher median household income ($120,865 vs $28,633 in Boone). Blowing Rock has the higher median home value ($667,300 vs $373,600 in Boone).

Population, income & housing

	Blowing Rock	Boone
Population	848	19,534
Median age	60.9 yrs	21.5 yrs
Median household income	$120,865	$28,633
Median home value	$667,300	$373,600
Median gross rent	$877	$1,080
Housing units	1,872	6,691
Homeownership rate	74.6%	23.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	59.9%	53.1%
Unemployment rate	0.7%	14.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Blowing Rock	Boone
Population	1,163 → 848 (-27.1%)	19,119 → 19,534 (+2.2%)
Median household income	$80,231 → $120,865 (+50.6%)	$22,434 → $28,633 (+27.6%)
Median home value	$455,600 → $667,300 (+46.5%)	$268,100 → $373,600 (+39.4%)
Median gross rent	$971 → $877 (-9.7%)	$900 → $1,080 (+20.0%)

Blowing Rock

Population

1,163848

Median household income

$80,231$120,865

Median home value

$455,600$667,300

Median gross rent

$971$877

Boone

Population

19,11919,534

Median household income

$22,434$28,633

Median home value

$268,100$373,600

Median gross rent

$900$1,080

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Blowing Rock	Boone
Under 5	4.7%	1.4%
5 to 17	5.4%	4.3%
18 to 24	10.1%	64.3%
25 to 34	3.3%	9.1%
35 to 44	11.8%	6.2%
45 to 54	5.4%	3.4%
55 to 64	20.4%	4.7%
65 to 74	25.7%	3.0%
75 and over	13.1%	3.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Blowing Rock	Boone
White (non-Hispanic)	92.9%	83.6%
Black or African American	3.7%	3.2%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.2%
Asian	0.0%	2.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.1%
Two or more races	3.4%	3.2%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	7.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Blowing Rock	Boone
No high school diploma	4.4%	7.1%
High school graduate	9.2%	17.9%
Some college or associate's	26.5%	22.0%
Bachelor's degree	26.8%	24.6%
Graduate or professional degree	33.1%	28.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Blowing Rock	Boone
Drove alone	78.5%	67.4%
Carpooled	0.5%	7.9%
Public transit	0.0%	2.6%
Walked	0.0%	10.7%
Bicycle	3.7%	0.0%
Worked from home	17.4%	10.4%
Other means	0.0%	1.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Blowing Rock	Boone
1-unit, detached	56.6%	28.8%
1-unit, attached	3.4%	1.7%
2 to 4 units	9.6%	10.0%
5 to 19 units	26.4%	34.4%
20 or more units	0.6%	22.9%
Mobile home & other	3.4%	2.3%

Poverty & households

	Blowing Rock	Boone
Poverty rate	1.8%	52.1%
Average household size	1.89	2.34
Mean commute (minutes)	32	15
Median year structure built	1984	1984