Charlestown vs Quonochontaug

A side-by-side comparison of Charlestown and Quonochontaug: population, income, housing, and more.

Charlestown and Quonochontaug are places in Rhode Island. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Charlestown has the higher population (1,648 vs 577 in Quonochontaug). Charlestown has the higher median household income ($113,281 vs $106,058 in Quonochontaug). Quonochontaug has the higher median home value ($880,000 vs $545,800 in Charlestown).

Population, income & housing

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
Population	1,648	577
Median age	63.1 yrs	61.7 yrs
Median household income	$113,281	$106,058
Median home value	$545,800	$880,000
Median gross rent	$1,216	—
Housing units	1,758	766
Homeownership rate	81.9%	93.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	56.7%	66.7%
Unemployment rate	9.2%	12.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
Population	1,312 → 1,648 (+25.6%)	535 → 577 (+7.9%)
Median household income	$74,706 → $113,281 (+51.6%)	$96,136 → $106,058 (+10.3%)
Median home value	$398,500 → $545,800 (+37.0%)	$869,700 → $880,000 (+1.2%)
Median gross rent	$1,759 → $1,216 (-30.9%)	—

Charlestown

Population

1,3121,648

Median household income

$74,706$113,281

Median home value

$398,500$545,800

Median gross rent

$1,759$1,216

Quonochontaug

Population

535577

Median household income

$96,136$106,058

Median home value

$869,700$880,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
Under 5	1.6%	4.3%
5 to 17	2.5%	3.6%
18 to 24	4.4%	0.0%
25 to 34	9.7%	12.1%
35 to 44	5.2%	1.9%
45 to 54	13.3%	5.0%
55 to 64	17.8%	29.6%
65 to 74	24.2%	14.0%
75 and over	21.2%	29.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
White (non-Hispanic)	93.3%	97.2%
Black or African American	2.3%	0.0%
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%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.8%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.7%	2.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
No high school diploma	2.1%	5.8%
High school graduate	19.8%	10.5%
Some college or associate's	21.4%	16.9%
Bachelor's degree	36.4%	24.7%
Graduate or professional degree	20.4%	42.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
Drove alone	81.6%	52.2%
Carpooled	3.8%	8.4%
Public transit	1.6%	0.0%
Walked	4.5%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.6%	39.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
1-unit, detached	97.4%	85.8%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	1.6%
2 to 4 units	2.1%	9.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	3.7%
20 or more units	0.5%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Charlestown	Quonochontaug
Poverty rate	6.7%	2.1%
Average household size	2.06	1.87
Mean commute (minutes)	28	27
Median year structure built	1973	1965