Town · Forsyth County, North Carolina

Walkertown, North Carolina

Walkertown is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina, part of the Winston-Salem, NC metro area. It has 5,873 residents. Walkertown, North Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,425 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within North Carolina it ranks #173 of 458 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), primary care physicians (high) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), violent crime rate (high) and drought exposure (high).

53Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,425 of 15,651 cities and towns
North Carolina: #173 of 458 in NC
Population: 5,873 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 876.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3770660

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety6#14,698/15,637
Economy61#6,145/15,631
Housing76#3,549/14,977
Health32#10,668/15,609
Healthcare47#8,249/15,650
Environment72#4,330/15,453
Education49#7,951/15,649
Infrastructure55#6,987/15,650
Community53#7,336/15,651
Leisure & amenities70#4,681/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Walkertown, North Carolina ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Forsyth 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 · high4.5
94/100North Carolina 3.3United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesForsyth County value
Primary care physicians · high113 /100k
90/100North Carolina 71 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteForsyth County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100North Carolina 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteForsyth County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyForsyth County value
Mammography screening · high52.0%
81/100North Carolina 50.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteForsyth County value
Voter turnout · high73.5%
81/100North Carolina 72.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionForsyth County value

Weaknesses

Property crime rate · high2,496 /100k
5/100North Carolina 1,780 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationForsyth County value
Violent crime rate · high551 /100k
8/100North Carolina 330 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationForsyth County value
Drought exposure · high85%
8/100North Carolina 79%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAForsyth County value
Homicide rate · high9.2 /100k
10/100North Carolina 6.9 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataForsyth County value
Food environment index · low6.9
13/100North Carolina 6.9United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteForsyth County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high16.1%
14/100North Carolina 10.2%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

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

PopulationRising
5,099 (2015-2019) → 5,873 (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
54.3% (2015-2019) → 32.2% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$41,952 (2015-2019) → $82,615 (2020-2024)
+97%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
77.8% (2015-2019) → 91.9% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
85.1% (2015-2019) → 95.1% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
24.1% (2015-2019) → 30.3% (2020-2024)
+6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Walkertown, North Carolina improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 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

Household income+97%$41,952 → $82,615
Broadband+14 points77.8% → 91.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Walkertown, North Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.8 min2015-2019	23.8 min2020-2024	−1.0 min	Within the margin of error	60%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.1%2015-2019	30.3%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Broadband subscriptions	77.8%2015-2019	91.9%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	77%
Effective property tax rate	0.81%2015-2019	0.79%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	19%
High school diploma or higher	85.1%2015-2019	95.1%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	−0.4×	Within the margin of error	92%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4202015-2019	0.4812020-2024	+0.061	Within the margin of error	12%
Median household income	$41,9522015-2019	$82,6152020-2024	+97%	Improved	98%
Poverty rate	13.4%2015-2019	10.8%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	32.2%2015-2019	27.1%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Rent-burdened households	54.3%2015-2019	32.2%2020-2024	−22 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	12.3%2015-2019	16.1%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	15%

“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 Walkertown, North Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Walkertown, 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, Walkertown, North Carolina itself moved +20 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

5,873 residents (±24)

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

2,358 households (±241)

Walkertown, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $25k11%†265
$25k–50k25%†596
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,358 households (±241)

Walkertown, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Own74%1,745
Rent26%†613

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,816 workers (±339)

Walkertown, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Drive alone84%2,352
Carpool4.6%†130
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 Winston-Salem, 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 Forsyth County, the county holding most of Walkertown's residents.

Forsyth County has 9,141 employer establishments, 232 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 0.98× North Carolina's), with 190,157 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,876. The Census Bureau also counts 33,189 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 9,141; 33,189 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 232; US 248 · North Carolina 237
Paid employees: 190,157
Average annual pay: $59,876; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	724	18.4	1.00×About typical	16,970	$19,623	155
Ambulatory health care services	666	16.9	0.81×About typical	12,689	$80,554	1,596
Specialty trade contractors	556	14.1	0.91×About typical	5,582	$62,750	2,137
Lessors of real estate	457	11.6	0.94×About typical	1,959	$64,968	3,120
Limited-service restaurants	328	8.3	1.04×About typical	8,575	$17,332	69
Full-service restaurants	317	8.1	1.05×About typical	7,176	$22,453	47
Construction of buildings	313	8	1.05×About typical	1,683	$83,921	958
Services to buildings and dwellings	311	7.9	1.17×About typical	3,046	$34,946	2,149
Religious organizations	289	7.3	1.32×More than typical	3,251	$26,249	—
Building equipment contractors	209	5.3	0.88×About typical	2,936	$64,707	309
Management, scientific and technical consulting	207	5.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	1,480	$71,982	1,212
Automotive repair and maintenance	205	5.2	1.03×About typical	1,291	$42,672	419

Rank places for an industry Open Forsyth County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 393,631 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 $1.2M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Walkertown, North Carolina: $208 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $1.2M; +223% vs FY2025
Per resident: $208; US $1,995
Sole-source: 4.3%; US 30%
Single offer: 22%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$741.4K61%
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$161.4K13%
Department of the Navy$103K8.4%
Public Buildings Service$76.1K6.2%
Department of Energy$37.7K3.1%
Defense Commissary Agency$36.7K3.0%
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration$36.3K3.0%
Department of State$23.8K2.0%

Top recipients

FOSTER-CAVINESS CO, INC$741.4K61%
ELEMANCE, LLC$139.3K11%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES$91.9K7.5%
KERANETICS INC.$69.5K5.7%
RAVEN SERVICES CORP$69.2K5.7%

Spending by fiscal year

2.1MFY2017
698.2KFY2018
668.3KFY2019
8.8MFY2020
178.5KFY2021
1.6MFY2022
302.8KFY2023
411.5K

Top industries (NAICS)

Other food manufacturing · 3119$741.4K61%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$264.5K22%
Facilities support services · 5612$70.5K5.8%
Other support services · 5619$36.7K3.0%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$35.8K2.9%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415

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 Walkertown, North Carolina, so they do not add up across cities.

Walkertown, North Carolina's figures are part of those of Forsyth County, NC ($66.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.8% of that total.

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

See federal money in Forsyth 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.

Walkertown, North Carolina is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Forsyth County60100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Winston-Salem, NC51

Other cities and towns in Forsyth 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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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

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Trends