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Sunset Beach town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Sunset Beach town is a Census town of 4,351 people across 6.76 square miles of land, in Brunswick County. Median household income is $81,976, 86.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.9 m.
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Sunset Beach
What Sunset Beach is
- Census place typetown
- Land area6.76 sq mi
- Water area0.92 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land644
- County holding the largest share of its areaBrunswick County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Beach
How many people live in Sunset Beach
- Population4,351
- Median age69.1
- Population under 18156 plus or minus 82
- Share under 183.6 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Population 65 and over2,599
- Share 65 and over59.7 percent
- Households2,381
- Family households1,482
- Share of households that are families62.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Beach
Income and work in Sunset Beach
- Median household income$81,976
- Per capita income$57,169
- Civilian labor force1,395 plus or minus 329
- Employed1,385 plus or minus 328
- Unemployed10 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate0.7 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Adults 25 and over4,150
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher40.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree14.3 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Beach
Housing in Sunset Beach
- Housing units5,238
- Occupied units2,381
- Vacant units2,857
- Vacancy rate54.5 percent
- Owner occupied2,057
- Renter occupied324 plus or minus 227
- Ownership rate86.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$410,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$537 plus or minus $342
- Annual rent as a share of median income7.9 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Single family units3,095
- Share single family59.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,624 plus or minus 345
- Share in buildings of two or more31.0 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Mobile homes519 plus or minus 242
- Median year structure built2000
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Beach
How Sunset Beach gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,040 plus or minus 332
- Commuting under 15 minutes371 plus or minus 201
- Share commuting under 15 minutes35.7 percent plus or minus 15.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more166 plus or minus 76
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more16.0 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Drove alone73.3 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Carpooled2.1 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home22.2 percent plus or minus 5.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Beach
SBA loans in Sunset Beach (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,893,000
- Average approval$723,250
- Median approval$710,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,892,000
- Largest approval$1,892,000
- Jobs supported69
- Jobs per approval17.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sunset Beach
Flood risk in Sunset Beach
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 6
- NFIP community number375359
- Currently effective map date08/28/18
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Brunswick County, not Sunset Beach
Brunswick County context, not Sunset Beach figures
These are Brunswick County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sunset Beach measurements.
- Establishments in Brunswick County3,093
- Employment at those establishments, Brunswick County33,646
- Covered employment, Brunswick County41,268
- Average annual pay, Brunswick County$51,701
- Average weekly wage, Brunswick County$994
- Housing units permitted, Brunswick County6,093
- Of those, single family, Brunswick County5,099
- County product, 2024, Brunswick County$8,081,360,000
- County product change over the prior year, Brunswick County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Brunswick County$109,448
Every figure in this section is published for Brunswick County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sunset Beach. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Sunset Beach questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sunset Beach, North Carolina?
4,351, in 2,381 households. Sunset Beach town covers 6.76 square miles of land, which is 644 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sunset Beach in?
Brunswick County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Sunset Beach?
$81,976. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $410,900. Median gross rent is $537 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sunset Beach businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $710,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sunset Beach, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sunset Beach borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sunset Beach. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Sunset Beach in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sunset Beach appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 375359, carrying Community Rating System class 6, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Sunset Beach figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Brunswick County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Sunset Beach.
Is zoning published for Sunset Beach?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.