Piney Creek is an unincorporated community located in Piney Creek Township

Piney Creek Township, Alleghany County, North Carolina

Piney Creek Township is one of seven townships in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. The township had a population of 807 according to the 2000 census.Geographically, Piney Creek Township occupies in northwestern Alleghany County...

, Alleghany County

Alleghany County, North Carolina

-Major highways:* U.S. Highway 21* U.S. Highway 221* North Carolina Highway 18* North Carolina Highway 88* North Carolina Highway 93* North Carolina Highway 113-Demographics:...

, North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

, USA .

Demographics

Piney Creek's Zip Code Tabulation Area

ZIP Code Tabulation Area

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics from Census 2000. This new entity was developed to overcome the difficulties in precisely defining the land area covered by each ZIP code...

 (Zip Code 28663) has a population of 580 as of the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

. The population is 51.2% male and 48.8% female. About 98.8% of the population is white, 0.7% African-American, 3.8% Hispanic

Hispanic

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, and 0.5% of people are two or more races.

The median household income

Median household income

The median household income is commonly used to generate data about geographic areas and divides households into two equal segments with the first half of households earning less than the median household income and the other half earning more...

 is $34,405 with 18.4% of the population living below the poverty

Poverty

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