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Waves CDP, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Waves CDP is a Census CDP of 153 people across 0.68 square miles of land, in Dare County. 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
35 sourced place values · tier SHORT · 5 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Waves through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 153 with a margin of error of plus or minus 120, which is 78.4 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. Because the margin here exceeds the estimate, this page shows its strongest sections only rather than a full profile.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Waves
What Waves is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.68 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land227 plus or minus 178
- County holding the largest share of its areaDare 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.
Waves
How many people live in Waves
- Population153 plus or minus 120
- Median age63.4
- Population under 180
- Share under 180.0 percent
- Population 65 and over41 plus or minus 37
- Share 65 and over26.8 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Households65 plus or minus 47
- Family households56 plus or minus 46
- Share of households that are families86.2 percent plus or minus 33.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waves
Income and work in Waves
- Per capita income$61,225
- Civilian labor force0
- Employed0
- Unemployed0
- Adults 25 and over153 plus or minus 120
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher63.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waves
Housing in Waves
- Housing units225 plus or minus 142
- Occupied units65 plus or minus 47
- Vacant units160 plus or minus 133
- Vacancy rate71.1 percent plus or minus 38.5
- Owner occupied65 plus or minus 47
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Single family units195 plus or minus 149
- Share single family86.7 percent plus or minus 37.1
- Units in buildings of two or more30 plus or minus 53
- Share in buildings of two or more13.3 percent plus or minus 21.9
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built2002
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dare County, not Waves
Dare County context, not Waves figures
These are Dare County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Waves measurements.
- Establishments in Dare County2,079
- Employment at those establishments, Dare County16,320
- Covered employment, Dare County20,359
- Average annual pay, Dare County$46,480
- Average weekly wage, Dare County$894
- Housing units permitted, Dare County371
- Of those, single family, Dare County371
- County product, 2024, Dare County$3,087,278,000
- County product change over the prior year, Dare County2.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Dare County$125,532
Every figure in this section is published for Dare County as a whole and is not a measurement of Waves. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Waves questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Waves, North Carolina?
153, in 65 households. Waves CDP covers 0.68 square miles of land, which is 227 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Waves in?
Dare County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Waves figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Dare 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 Waves.
Is zoning published for Waves?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.