ZIP profile

Banking access in ZIP 28701

North Carolina · Buncombe NC. Source year 2025.

Non-desert with desert exposure

The published Financial Access Pressure Index is 41.8216. Higher values indicate more measured physical banking-access pressure. This measure does not identify bank branches, drive-through hours, individual banking behavior, or overall neighborhood quality.

Banking-access measures

Pressure index41.8216
National pressure rank#1,805 of 20,307
National percentile88.7
State pressure rank#106 of 639
State percentile81.53
Weighted banking-desert geography41.82%
Weighted potential-desert geography0.00%
Population banking-desert exposure46.50%
Population potential-desert exposure0.00%
Allocated population4,488.97
Allocated population in banking deserts2,087.27

Geographic shares and population shares use different denominators. Published ranks and percentiles are preserved, including ties. Population estimates are displayed to two decimals; exact source values are in the downloads.

People & financial access

Estimated population-group exposure to banking-desert geography. These are allocated estimates, not counts of unbanked people. Groups overlap and must not be added together.

Population groupRepresented estimateExposed estimateExposure shareEvidence tier
American Indian / Alaska Native non-Hispanic0.230.000.00%LIMITED
Asian non-Hispanic4.530.000.00%LIMITED
Black non-Hispanic57.073.836.70%LIMITED
Residents with disabilities662.10299.2345.19%LIMITED
Hispanic369.0765.0317.62%LIMITED
Older residents697.31375.5853.86%LIMITED
Other race non-Hispanic0.000.00UnavailableNOT_AVAILABLE
People of color524.68108.5020.68%LIMITED
Two or more races non-Hispanic93.7839.6442.28%LIMITED
White non-Hispanic3,964.281,978.7749.92%STANDARD

Evidence tiers are passed through from the source. Missing ranks or rates remain unavailable. A zero exposure share does not guarantee that a branch is open or nearby.

Source year: 2025 in the governed ZIP profile view. Exported October 13, 2026; the export date is not an observation date. Population figures are allocated estimates; groups can overlap. Sources and interpretation →