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Beech Mountain town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Beech Mountain town is a Census town of 987 people across 6.48 square miles of land, lying across Watauga County and Avery County. Median household income is $90,855, 89.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Beech Mountain
What Beech Mountain is
- Census place typetown
- Land area6.48 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land152
- County holding the largest share of its areaWatauga County, 78.6 percent
- Counties this place lies inWatauga County 78.6 percent, Avery County 21.4 percent
Beech Mountain town crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Beech Mountain
How many people live in Beech Mountain
- Population987
- Median age61.7
- Population under 1885 plus or minus 40
- Share under 188.6 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Population 65 and over402
- Share 65 and over40.7 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Households515
- Family households328
- Share of households that are families63.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Beech Mountain
- Median household income$90,855
- Per capita income$82,320
- Civilian labor force422 plus or minus 89
- Employed387 plus or minus 85
- Unemployed35 plus or minus 24
- Unemployment rate8.3 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over892
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher53.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree26.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Beech Mountain
- Housing units2,416
- Occupied units515
- Vacant units1,901
- Vacancy rate78.7 percent
- Owner occupied460
- Renter occupied55 plus or minus 27
- Ownership rate89.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$443,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,137
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.0 percent
- Single family units1,769
- Share single family73.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more617
- Share in buildings of two or more25.5 percent
- Mobile homes30 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1985
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Beech Mountain gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute256 plus or minus 80
- Commuting under 15 minutes47 plus or minus 22
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.4 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more109 plus or minus 45
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.6 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Drove alone52.0 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Carpooled12.8 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.5 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Worked from home30.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Beech Mountain
Flood risk in Beech Mountain
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370480
- Currently effective map date(NSFHA)
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.
Watauga County, not Beech Mountain
Watauga County context, not Beech Mountain figures
These are Watauga County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Beech Mountain measurements.
- Establishments in Watauga County1,740
- Employment at those establishments, Watauga County20,781
- Covered employment, Watauga County25,106
- Average annual pay, Watauga County$48,024
- Average weekly wage, Watauga County$924
- Housing units permitted, Watauga County296
- Of those, single family, Watauga County268
- County product, 2024, Watauga County$3,192,591,000
- County product change over the prior year, Watauga County4.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Watauga County$90,554
Every figure in this section is published for Watauga County as a whole and is not a measurement of Beech Mountain. 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.
- 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
Beech Mountain questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Beech Mountain, North Carolina?
987, in 515 households. Beech Mountain town covers 6.48 square miles of land, which is 152 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Beech Mountain in?
Beech Mountain lies in more than one. By area it is 78.6 percent in Watauga County, 21.4 percent in Avery County. This page sits under Watauga County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Beech Mountain?
$90,855. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $443,500. Median gross rent is $1,137 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Beech Mountain in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Beech Mountain appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370480, 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 Beech Mountain figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Watauga 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 Beech Mountain.
Is zoning published for Beech Mountain?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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