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Cerro Gordo town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Cerro Gordo town is a Census town of 319 people across 0.79 square miles of land, in Columbus County. 85.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Cerro Gordo through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 319 with a margin of error of plus or minus 196, which is 61.4 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Cerro Gordo
What Cerro Gordo is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.79 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land403 plus or minus 247
- County holding the largest share of its areaColumbus 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.
Cerro Gordo
How many people live in Cerro Gordo
- Population319 plus or minus 196
- Median age48.4 plus or minus 13.3
- Population under 1855 plus or minus 48
- Share under 1817.2 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Population 65 and over87 plus or minus 98
- Share 65 and over27.3 percent plus or minus 25.7
- Households147 plus or minus 98
- Family households70 plus or minus 44
- Share of households that are families47.6 percent plus or minus 43.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cerro Gordo
Income and work in Cerro Gordo
- Per capita income$19,424 plus or minus $8,017
- Civilian labor force118 plus or minus 90
- Employed117 plus or minus 90
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 2
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over219 plus or minus 123
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher5.0 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.7 percent plus or minus 6.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cerro Gordo
Housing in Cerro Gordo
- Housing units164 plus or minus 97
- Occupied units147 plus or minus 98
- Vacant units17 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate10.4 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Owner occupied126 plus or minus 97
- Renter occupied21 plus or minus 27
- Ownership rate85.7 percent plus or minus 33.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$189,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$734 plus or minus $268
- Single family units129 plus or minus 100
- Share single family78.7 percent plus or minus 39.4
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes35 plus or minus 30
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cerro Gordo
How Cerro Gordo gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute117 plus or minus 90
- Commuting under 15 minutes5 plus or minus 16
- Share commuting under 15 minutes4.3 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more82 plus or minus 59
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more70.1 percent plus or minus 74.1
- Drove alone85.5 percent
- Carpooled13.7 percent plus or minus 18.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cerro Gordo
Flood risk in Cerro Gordo
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370311
- Currently effective map date12/06/19
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Columbus County, not Cerro Gordo
Columbus County context, not Cerro Gordo figures
These are Columbus County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cerro Gordo measurements.
- Establishments in Columbus County997
- Employment at those establishments, Columbus County11,658
- Covered employment, Columbus County14,466
- Average annual pay, Columbus County$47,896
- Average weekly wage, Columbus County$921
- Housing units permitted, Columbus County55
- Of those, single family, Columbus County55
- County product, 2024, Columbus County$1,917,692,000
- County product change over the prior year, Columbus County1.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Columbus County$40,996
Every figure in this section is published for Columbus County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cerro Gordo. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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
Cerro Gordo questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina?
319, in 147 households. Cerro Gordo town covers 0.79 square miles of land, which is 403 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cerro Gordo in?
Columbus County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Is Cerro Gordo in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Cerro Gordo appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370311, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. 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 Cerro Gordo figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Columbus 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 Cerro Gordo.
Is zoning published for Cerro Gordo?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.