Winfall, NC

ZIP code 27985 is assigned to Winfall, NC, and falls within Perquimans County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 326 people live inside it.

At 1,240 residents per square mile spread over 0.263 square miles, 27985 reads as a suburban area. It is a sparsely populated postal code, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings run below the national median. At $60,114, 27985 sits in the lower half, ahead of 32% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 27985 costs well below the national median. A typical home is valued at $87,800 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $1,203 a month. This is firmly renter territory — 74.2% of occupied homes are rented, a pattern typical of city centres, student areas and neighbourhoods with a lot of apartment stock.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 74.7% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1985, making the housing here from the later twentieth century. The vacancy rate of 23.5% is high, which in many places reflects seasonal or second-home use rather than abandonment.

The population skews younger than the country as a whole, with a median age of 34.1 against 42 nationally. The average household holds 2.63 people, and 86.3% are family households.

Getting to work takes 16.8 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 52.5% of workers.

Beyond addressing mail, 27985 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 27985 offers a compact profile of Winfall: 326 residents, a median household income of $60,114, 21.3% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 20.8%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 27985 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Winfall may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.