Census-designated place · Beaufort County, North Carolina

Cypress Landing, North Carolina

Cypress Landing is a census-designated place in Beaufort County, North Carolina, part of the Washington, NC metro area. It has 1,044 residents. Cypress Landing, North Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 61 out of 100 (high), ranking #6,028 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within North Carolina it ranks #146 of 458 cities and towns. It ranks best on poverty rate (low), unemployment rate (low) and mammography screening (high). It ranks worst on natural hazard risk (high), distance to an emergency room (high) and primary care shortage (high).

61High

Quality-of-life score: #6,028 of 15,651 cities and towns
North Carolina: #146 of 458 in NC
Population: 1,044 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 443.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3716084

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety5#14,906/15,637
Economy79#3,303/15,631
Housing—
Health44#8,695/15,609
Healthcare26#11,630/15,650
Environment65#5,354/15,453
Education78#3,473/15,649
Infrastructure76#3,806/15,650
Community81#2,973/15,651
Leisure & amenities58#6,611/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Cypress Landing, North Carolina ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Beaufort County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Poverty rate · low0.5%
100/100North Carolina 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100North Carolina 3.8%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Mammography screening · high56.0%
94/100North Carolina 50.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBeaufort County value
Broadband subscriptions · high98.4%
92/100North Carolina 90.1%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Voter turnout · high76.8%
90/100North Carolina 72.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionBeaufort County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.1 µg/m³
89/100North Carolina 7.5 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBeaufort County value

Weaknesses

Natural hazard risk · high98.3
2/100North Carolina 45.12025Federal Emergency Management AgencyBeaufort County value
Distance to an emergency room · high18.9 mi
3/100North Carolina 7.9 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesBeaufort County value
Primary care shortage · high18.0
5/100North Carolina 9.9United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBeaufort County value
Firearm deaths · high22.5 /100k
10/100North Carolina 16.2 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBeaufort County value
Homicide rate · high9.6 /100k
10/100North Carolina 6.9 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataBeaufort County value
Distance to an airport · high99 mi
10/100North Carolina 30 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBeaufort County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,383 (2016-2020) → 1,044 (2020-2024)
−25%4 yearsCensus table B01003US 331,578,104 → 340,003,797
Average commute timeImproving
27.0 min (2016-2020) → 18.1 min (2020-2024)
−33%4 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Home price to income ratioWorsening
4.2× (2016-2020) → 5.3× (2020-2024)
+25%4 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
3.6% (2016-2020) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−3.6 pts4 yearsCensus table B17001US 15.7% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
3.3% (2016-2020) → 0.5% (2020-2024)
−2.8 pts4 yearsCensus table B17001US 11.9% → 12.1%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.420 (2016-2020) → 0.384 (2020-2024)
−8.6%4 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

There is not enough history to compare Cypress Landing, North Carolina over five years.

Cities and towns like Cypress Landing, North Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Cypress Landing, North Carolina in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Cypress Landing, North Carolina five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,044 residents (±272)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,044 residents (±272)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

White95%993
Black1.6%†17
Hispanic or Latino2.5%†26

Education

1,023 residents (±265)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

No high school diploma1.6%†16
High school or GED11%†111
Some college21%†217

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

559 households (±141)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $25k11%†61
$25k–50k18%†103
$50k–75k14%†80
$75k–100k17%†97
$100k–150k19%†108
$150k–200k7.2%†40
$200k or more13%†70

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

559 households (±141)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Own100%559
Rent0.0%0

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Home values

559 homes (±141)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $150k0.0%0
$150k–250k3.2%†18
$250k–400k33%†182

Age of homes

590 homes (±139)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

2010 or later9.7%†57
2000–200972%†423
1980–199917%†98

Size of homes

590 homes (±139)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.0%0
2 bedrooms6.6%†39

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

239 workers (±110)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Drive alone81%†193
Carpool0.0%0
Public transit0.0%0
Walk7.5%†18
Bike0.0%0
Work from home12%†28
Other0.0%0

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

211 workers (±103)

Cypress Landing, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under 15 min45%†95
15–29 min25%†52
30–44 min20%†42

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Washington, NC

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Beaufort County, the county holding most of Cypress Landing's residents.

Beaufort County has 1,138 employer establishments, 256 for every 10,000 residents (1.03× the US rate of 248; 1.08× North Carolina's), with 13,893 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,404. The Census Bureau also counts 3,601 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,138; 3,601 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 256; US 248 · North Carolina 237
Paid employees: 13,893
Average annual pay: $46,404; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Beaufort County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	92	20.7	0.99×About typical	746	$66,851	121
Restaurants and other eating places	77	17.3	0.94×About typical	1,366	$18,239	6
Specialty trade contractors	57	12.8	0.83×About typical	316	$40,500	359
Religious organizations	44	9.9	1.78×More than typical	226	$22,416	—
Lessors of real estate	40	9	0.73×Fewer than typical	136	$34,757	379
Construction of buildings	37	8.3	1.10×About typical	357	$77,384	177
Insurance agencies and brokerages	37	8.3	1.89×More than typical	155	$54,084	60
Limited-service restaurants	36	8.1	1.01×About typical	753	$18,660	3
Offices of physicians	36	8.1	1.25×About typical	276	$95,674	22
Full-service restaurants	34	7.6	0.99×About typical	557	$17,919	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	32	7.2	1.43×More than typical	141	$40,709	85
Services to buildings and dwellings	31	7	1.03×About typical	149	$35,611	429

Rank places for an industry Open Beaufort County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 44,508 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Cypress Landing, North Carolina: $0 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $2,007
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.7%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

9.4FY2017
467.4FY2020
584.2FY2021
-536.3FY2022

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Cypress Landing, North Carolina, so they do not add up across cities.

Cypress Landing, North Carolina's figures are part of those of Beaufort County, NC ($2.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Cypress Landing is mostly in Beaufort County.

See federal money in Beaufort County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Cypress Landing, North Carolina is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Gregory F. MurphyR-NC-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 12.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Beaufort County40100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Washington, NC37

Other cities and towns in Beaufort County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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