Town · Randolph County, North Carolina

Ramseur, North Carolina

Ramseur is a town in Randolph County, North Carolina, part of the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area. It has 2,150 residents. Ramseur, North Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 15 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,239 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within North Carolina it ranks #388 of 458 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), high ozone days (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on median household income (low), injury deaths (high) and adult obesity (high).

15Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,239 of 15,651 cities and towns
North Carolina: #388 of 458 in NC
Population: 2,150 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,074.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3755040

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety46#8,466/15,637
Economy7#14,534/15,631
Housing42#8,710/14,977
Health4#14,989/15,609
Healthcare20#12,537/15,650
Environment54#7,139/15,453
Education26#11,506/15,649
Infrastructure38#9,663/15,650
Community35#10,096/15,651
Leisure & amenities14#13,505/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Ramseur, North Carolina ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Randolph 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

Hospital quality rating · high4.0
80/100North Carolina 3.3United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesRandolph County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100North Carolina 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyRandolph County value
Child care cost burden · low25.0%
74/100North Carolina 25.1%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRandolph County value
Voter turnout · high71.8%
73/100North Carolina 72.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionRandolph County value
Comfortable days · high28.5%
71/100North Carolina 30.0%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationRandolph County value
Math scores · high3.19
71/100North Carolina 3.06United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRandolph County value

Weaknesses

Median household income · low$35,923
4/100North Carolina $74,055United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Injury deaths · high141 /100k
5/100North Carolina 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRandolph County value
Adult obesity · high43.2%
9/100North Carolina 37.2%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100North Carolina 9.9United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationRandolph County value
Adult smoking · high20.3%
12/100North Carolina 16.2%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high20.9%
12/100North Carolina 18.8%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,817 (2015-2019) → 2,150 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
30.2% (2015-2019) → 71.0% (2020-2024)
+41 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
63.2% (2015-2019) → 84.8% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateWorsening
27.4% (2015-2019) → 47.7% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
75.2% (2015-2019) → 84.7% (2020-2024)
+9.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
13.6% (2015-2019) → 5.6% (2020-2024)
−8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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.

Over about five years, Ramseur, North Carolina improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Uninsured−8 points13.6% → 5.6%
Broadband+22 points63.2% → 84.8%

Declined2

Child poverty+41 points30.2% → 71.0%
Inequality+0.1180.372 → 0.490

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Ramseur, North Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.1 min2015-2019	25.0 min2020-2024	−2.1 min	Within the margin of error	71%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.5%2015-2019	12.9%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Broadband subscriptions	63.2%2015-2019	84.8%2020-2024	+22 points	Improved	92%
Child poverty rate	30.2%2015-2019	71.0%2020-2024	+41 points	Declined	1%
Effective property tax rate	1.09%2015-2019	0.74%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	80%
High school diploma or higher	75.2%2015-2019	84.7%2020-2024	+9.5 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	4.3×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	21%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3722015-2019	0.4902020-2024	+0.118	Declined	3%
Median household income	$30,6942015-2019	$35,9232020-2024	+17%	Within the margin of error	27%
Poverty rate	27.4%2015-2019	47.7%2020-2024	+20 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Rent as share of income	33.6%2015-2019	40.9%2020-2024	+7.3 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Rent-burdened households	63.5%2015-2019	63.8%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.6%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	−8 points	Improved	94%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

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

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ramseur, 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.

For comparison, Ramseur, North Carolina itself moved −3.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

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

2,150 residents (±723)

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

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 60–69 women (−4.3 points).

† 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

2,150 residents (±723)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

White59%1,271
Black10%†217
Hispanic or Latino27%†585

Education

1,217 residents (±283)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

No high school diploma15%†186
High school or GED37%†446
Some college26%

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

763 households (±218)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $25k41%†312
$25k–50k26%†200
$50k–75k17%†130
$75k–100k3.9%†30
$100k–150k6.8%†52
$150k–200k4.5%†34
$200k or more0.7%†5

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+5.6 points).

† 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

763 households (±218)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Own45%340
Rent55%†423

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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

Table view

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

Rent paid

390 households (±205)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $75066%†258
$750–1,00014%†53
$1,000–1,50019%†74

Home values

340 homes (±92)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $150k48%†162
$150k–250k41%†139
$250k–400k3.5%†12

Age of homes

866 homes (±222)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

2010 or later6.2%†54
2000–20096.0%†52
1980–199919%†

Size of homes

866 homes (±222)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom4.0%†35
2 bedrooms45%†392

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

678 workers (±182)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Drive alone83%560
Carpool14%†96
Public transit0.4%†3
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home2.8%†19
Other0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† 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

659 workers (±177)

Ramseur, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under 15 min22%†146
15–29 min47%311
30–44 min16%†107

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 Greensboro-High Point, 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 Randolph County, the county holding most of Ramseur's residents.

Randolph County has 2,651 employer establishments, 179 for every 10,000 residents (0.72× the US rate of 248; 0.76× North Carolina's), with 38,094 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,486. The Census Bureau also counts 11,561 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,651; 11,561 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 179; US 248 · North Carolina 237
Paid employees: 38,094
Average annual pay: $44,486; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	252	17.1	1.10×About typical	2,050	$58,287	1,257
Restaurants and other eating places	205	13.9	0.76×Fewer than typical	3,916	$17,665	38
Ambulatory health care services	130	8.8	0.42×Fewer than typical	1,450	$57,893	342
Religious organizations	129	8.7	1.57×More than typical	681	$21,927	—
Building equipment contractors	118	8	1.33×More than typical	865	$54,321	251
Full-service restaurants	96	6.5	0.85×About typical	1,624	$18,702	18
Limited-service restaurants	95	6.4	0.80×About typical	2,188	$17,060	16
Services to buildings and dwellings	92	6.2	0.92×About typical	414	$29,889	1,101
Construction of buildings	88	6	0.79×Fewer than typical	400	$56,848	525
Lessors of real estate	86	5.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	164	$37,799	763
Truck transportation	82	5.5	1.10×About typical	404	$53,968	382
Automotive repair and maintenance	77	5.2	1.03×About typical	500	$45,162	260

Rank places for an industry Open Randolph County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 147,787 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 Ramseur, North Carolina: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

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

15.3KFY2017
3.1KFY2018
9.2KFY2019
153.5FY2020
4.2KFY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Ramseur, North Carolina, so they do not add up across cities.

Ramseur, North Carolina's figures are part of those of Randolph County, NC ($1.9M 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: Ramseur is mostly in Randolph County.

See federal money in Randolph 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.

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

House

Richard HudsonR-NC-9 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.2%

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.

Randolph County32100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Greensboro-High Point, NC52

Other cities and towns in Randolph 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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