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Mount Olive town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Mount Olive town is a Census town of 4,453 people across 2.74 square miles of land, in Wayne County. Median household income is $48,700, 56.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Mount Olive
What Mount Olive is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.74 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,626
- County holding the largest share of its areaWayne County, 99.9 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.
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How many people live in Mount Olive
- Population4,453
- Median age42.9
- Population under 18694 plus or minus 200
- Share under 1815.6 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Population 65 and over923 plus or minus 188
- Share 65 and over20.7 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Households1,677
- Family households958
- Share of households that are families57.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Mount Olive
- Median household income$48,700
- Per capita income$25,344
- Civilian labor force2,149
- Employed1,938
- Unemployed211 plus or minus 114
- Unemployment rate9.8 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over2,986
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.8 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.3 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Mount Olive
- Housing units1,927
- Occupied units1,677
- Vacant units250 plus or minus 111
- Vacancy rate13.0 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Owner occupied955
- Renter occupied722 plus or minus 152
- Ownership rate56.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$153,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$950
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.4 percent
- Single family units1,370
- Share single family71.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more258 plus or minus 104
- Share in buildings of two or more13.4 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Mobile homes299 plus or minus 151
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Mount Olive gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,785
- Commuting under 15 minutes856 plus or minus 220
- Share commuting under 15 minutes48.0 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more440 plus or minus 152
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more24.6 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Drove alone76.2 percent
- Carpooled15.1 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Walked2.8 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Worked from home5.5 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mount Olive
Flood risk in Mount Olive
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370369
- Currently effective map date06/20/18
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.
Wayne County, not Mount Olive
Wayne County context, not Mount Olive figures
These are Wayne County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Mount Olive measurements.
- Establishments in Wayne County2,195
- Employment at those establishments, Wayne County33,629
- Covered employment, Wayne County41,880
- Average annual pay, Wayne County$49,087
- Average weekly wage, Wayne County$944
- Housing units permitted, Wayne County605
- Of those, single family, Wayne County583
- County product, 2024, Wayne County$6,769,497,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wayne County4.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wayne County$46,085
Every figure in this section is published for Wayne County as a whole and is not a measurement of Mount Olive. 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
Mount Olive questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Mount Olive, North Carolina?
4,453, in 1,677 households. Mount Olive town covers 2.74 square miles of land, which is 1,626 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Mount Olive in?
Wayne County, which holds 99.9 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Mount Olive?
$48,700. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $153,500. Median gross rent is $950 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Mount Olive in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Mount Olive appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370369, 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 Mount Olive figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wayne 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 Mount Olive.
Is zoning published for Mount Olive?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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