Home age in ZIP 28543, Jacksonville, NC: median built 2006

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 28543 in Jacksonville, NC: median home built 2006; 21.1% of homes (466) are older than 25 years and 29.2% (645) were built since 2010, out of 2,207 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 28543.

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Share of homes in ZIP 28543 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 1 percent; 1940s 0.5 percent; 1950s 2.6 percent; 1960s 1.3 percent; 1970s 5.3 percent; 1980s 1.3 percent; 1990s 9.1 percent; 2000s 49.7 percent; 2010s 28.6 percent; 2020+ 0.6 percentpre-1940: 23 homes, 1.0%1%pre-1940Onslow County: 0.6%1940s: 10 homes, 0.5%0.5%1940sOnslow County: 2.0%1950s: 57 homes, 2.6%2.6%1950sOnslow County: 5.6%1960s: 29 homes, 1.3%1.3%1960sOnslow County: 6.7%1970s: 118 homes, 5.3%5.3%1970sOnslow County: 11.0%1980s: 29 homes, 1.3%1.3%1980sOnslow County: 13.5%1990s: 200 homes, 9.1%9.1%1990sOnslow County: 14.7%2000s: 1,096 homes, 49.7%49.7%2000sOnslow County: 20.5%2010s: 631 homes, 28.6%28.6%2010sOnslow County: 22.8%2020+: 14 homes, 0.6%0.6%2020+Onslow County: 2.5%Built 1999 or earlier: 21.1% of homes (466)ZIP 28543, built before 2000built 2000 or laterOnslow County

Share of the 2,207 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Onslow County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 28543 next to Jacksonville and Onslow County

IndicatorZIP 28543JacksonvilleOnslow CountyRank among 1 ZIPs of Jacksonville on this site
Housing units2,20725,76885,917
Median year built200619921997
Built before 198010.7%36.9%26%
Built before 200021.1%no data54.2%
Built since 201029.2%no data25.3%
Owner-occupied homes3.3%37%61%
Single-family units92.7%68.2%no data
Median home valueno data$191,700$219,500
Median household income$43,680 (+/- $5,205)$54,069no data

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 28543

BuiltShare of Onslow CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 28543
2020+2.5%0.6%14
2010s22.8%28.6%631
2000s20.5%49.7%1,096
1990s14.7%9.1%200
1980s13.5%1.3%29
1970s11.0%5.3%118
1960s6.7%1.3%29
1950s5.6%2.6%57
1940s2.0%0.5%10
pre-19400.6%1.0%23

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 28543

ZIP 28543 has 2,207 housing units: 466 (21.1%) were built before 2000, 645 (29.2%) in 2010 or later, and 1,096 (49.7%) in the 2000s, its largest era. The median year built is 2006 (Jacksonville: 1992), so 14 years newer than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 3.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 92.7% of units are single-family houses; median household income is $43,680, give or take $5,205; the ZIP holds 8.6% of the housing units the Census counts in Jacksonville, 2,207 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 266 units (12.1%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 200 (9.1%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 1,096 (49.7%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 645 (29.2%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 28543

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

–years old (roof)
–of homes in ZIP 28543 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 28543 among Jacksonville’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 28543 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 28543: 2,207 homes, 21.1% built before 2000, median year 200628543
  • under 20% built before 2000
  • 40 to 60%
  • 80% or more
  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 28543. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Storm backdrop: Onslow County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Onslow County Relatively High overall (95.0 of 100), Relatively Low for hail (44.4), Relatively Moderate for strong wind (80.6) and Relatively Moderate for tornado (85.8). NOAA logged 35 hail reports in the county, on 10 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 28543: Wilmington, NC (47 miles), Rocky Mount, NC (86 miles), Fayetteville, NC (87 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 28543?

Of the 2,207 housing units, 237 (10.7%) were built before 1980, 466 (21.1%) before 2000 and 645 (29.2%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 28543?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 237 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 11 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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