The growth in the percentage of adults and decrease in percentage of children may suggest that more adults without children have moved to Durham County over the past decade. To explore whether these increases are particular to Durham or reflective of national and state-level income growth, The Chronicle compared the percent change in median household income for Durham County, the state of North Carolina, and the U.S. from 2010-2019 using data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. These increases in income are consistent with the economic redevelopment and gentrification that is and has been occurring in Durham, as lower-income people are displaced by those with higher incomes, according to Quintero.