Town · Iredell County, North Carolina

Troutman, North Carolina

Troutman is a town in Iredell County, North Carolina, part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro area. It has 3,995 residents. Troutman, North Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 72 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,334 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within North Carolina it ranks #98 of 458 cities and towns. It ranks best on arts, entertainment and recreation (high), gyms and fitness centers (high) and voter turnout (high). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), public libraries (low) and drought exposure (high).

72High

Quality-of-life score: #4,334 of 15,651 cities and towns
North Carolina: #98 of 458 in NC
Population: 3,995 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 452.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 3768500

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.

Safety36#9,928/15,637
Economy86#2,244/15,631
Housing49#7,698/14,977
Health60#6,226/15,609
Healthcare62#5,945/15,650
Environment60#6,219/15,453
Education77#3,540/15,649
Infrastructure57#6,716/15,650
Community66#5,339/15,651
Leisure & amenities79#3,225/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Arts, entertainment and recreation · high8.3 /10k
93/100North Carolina 4.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsIredell County value
Gyms and fitness centers · high2.0 /10k
90/100North Carolina 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsIredell County value
Voter turnout · high76.6%
89/100North Carolina 72.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionIredell County value
Child care cost burden · low21.9%
89/100North Carolina 25.1%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteIredell County value
Child poverty rate · low3.0%
81/100North Carolina 16.6%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Comfortable days · high30.4%
80/100North Carolina 30.0%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationIredell County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100North Carolina 3.3United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesIredell County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
14/100North Carolina 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesIredell County value
Drought exposure · high73%
21/100North Carolina 79%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAIredell County value
Students per teacher · high16.9×
22/100North Carolina 16.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsIredell County value
Public transit commuters · low0.0%
27/100North Carolina 0.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301
Access to exercise opportunities · low66.8%
28/100North Carolina 78.0%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteIredell County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,685 (2015-2019) → 3,995 (2020-2024)
+49%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$56,968 (2015-2019) → $98,462 (2020-2024)
+73%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.6% (2015-2019) → 44.7% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
12.5% (2015-2019) → 3.1% (2020-2024)
−9.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
32.5% (2015-2019) → 41.4% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
11.7% (2015-2019) → 3.5% (2020-2024)
−8.2 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, Troutman, North Carolina improved on 3 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved3

Household income+73%$56,968 → $98,462
Inequality−0.1090.518 → 0.409
Uninsured−8.2 points11.7% → 3.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Troutman, North Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.6 min2015-2019	27.3 min2020-2024	+4.7 min	Within the margin of error	11%
Bachelor's degree or higher	32.5%2015-2019	41.4%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Broadband subscriptions	89.3%2015-2019	92.9%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Effective property tax rate	0.87%2015-2019	0.75%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	38%
High school diploma or higher	90.6%2015-2019	98.6%2020-2024	+8 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Home price to income ratio	3.5×2015-2019	4.1×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	43%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5182015-2019	0.4092020-2024	−0.109	Improved	97%
Median household income	$56,9682015-2019	$98,4622020-2024	+73%	Improved	95%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	31.6%2015-2019	44.7%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.7%2015-2019	3.5%2020-2024	−8.2 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 Troutman, North Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Troutman, 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, Troutman, North Carolina itself moved +6.3 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

3,995 residents (±28)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

1,516 households (±153)

Troutman, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $25k13%†203
$25k–50k9.2%†139
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,516 households (±153)

Troutman, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Own81%1,222
Rent19%†294

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−10.7 points).

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,043 workers (±201)

Troutman, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Drive alone63%1,281
Carpool12%†251
Public transit0.0%0

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 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

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 Iredell County, the county holding most of Troutman's residents.

Iredell County has 5,405 employer establishments, 270 for every 10,000 residents (1.09× the US rate of 248; 1.14× North Carolina's), with 80,234 paid employees at an average annual pay of $63,989. The Census Bureau also counts 19,064 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 5,405; 19,064 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 270; US 248 · North Carolina 237
Paid employees: 80,234
Average annual pay: $63,989; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	418	20.9	1.00×About typical	4,092	$68,355	717
Specialty trade contractors	396	19.8	1.28×More than typical	3,482	$60,339	1,349
Restaurants and other eating places	350	17.5	0.95×About typical	7,445	$20,174	82
Lessors of real estate	291	14.5	1.18×About typical	572	$48,722	2,042
Construction of buildings	185	9.2	1.22×About typical	759	$74,548	610
Management, scientific and technical consulting	179	8.9	1.33×More than typical	1,075	$74,398	721
Services to buildings and dwellings	173	8.6	1.28×More than typical	1,034	$37,442	1,258
Real estate agents and brokers	171	8.5	1.76×More than typical	221	$52,186	684
Full-service restaurants	161	8	1.05×About typical	3,423	$23,101	36
Religious organizations	161	8	1.45×More than typical	979	$23,309	—
Building equipment contractors	155	7.7	1.29×More than typical	1,273	$59,977	254
Limited-service restaurants	152	7.6	0.95×About typical	3,542	$17,661	28

Rank places for an industry Open Iredell County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 200,005 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 $470.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Troutman, North Carolina: $118 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $470.7K
Per resident: $118; US $1,995
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 100%; 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

Department of the Army$470.7K100%

Top recipients

CR ONSRUD INC$470.7K100%

Spending by fiscal year

3.6KFY2017
2.1KFY2019
470.7KFY2026

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$470.7K100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Metalworking machinery manufacturing · 3335$470.7K100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Troutman, North Carolina, so they do not add up across cities.

Troutman, North Carolina's figures are part of those of Iredell County, NC ($77.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.6% of that total.

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

See federal money in Iredell 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.

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

House

Pat HarriganR-NC-10 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.8%

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.

Iredell County83100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC75

Other cities and towns in Iredell 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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