Aberdeen, North Carolina.
Typical home $348,568 (+0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,760 (+0.8%). Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,082 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,386 +0%
- $347,182$348,568 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,734 +35%
- $258,834$348,568 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Aberdeen$1,830
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Aberdeen, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Aberdeen, NC rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Aberdeen runs $596/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $608 in Feb 2025.
That is $2,356 a month against $1,760 rent: a $1,830 mortgage payment, plus $153 property tax and $373 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Aberdeen
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,356
- Renting$1,760
- Mortgage only$1,830
Property tax · $153/mo 0.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Moore County, NC
Insurance & upkeep · $373/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Aberdeen, Moore County, North Carolina
Aberdeen is a town of 8,516 people in Moore County. Half its households earn more than $75,078 a year and half less, against $86,080 across Moore County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Moore County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Aberdeen is a small town in Moore County with a younger population than many places where older homeowners tend to settle. Household incomes run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers turn hot, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Aberdeen are Walmart, Duke Energy and Dahlia Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. The commute to work is a little longer than a quick hop across town, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens is a botanical garden, and Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve offers a museum and a place to walk outdoors. Aberdeen Creek, also a short drive away, is a river for a quiet afternoon. For a longer outing, Town Creek Indian Mound is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 3,996households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moore County had 42,751 jobs in 2025, 6.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage Wtp weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aberdeen
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores141
- Dahlia Gardens Center for Nursing and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities138
- Spiritus Systems CompanyBelts, money, any material, cut and sewn from purchased fabric107
- Duke EnergyElectric power distribution84
- O'Connor Company of NC.IncConstruction management, commercial and institutional building70
- Food LionGrocery stores64
- Food LionGrocery stores63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,284 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Aberdeen’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Moore County and the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro.
Aberdeen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Aberdeen$348,568
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Aberdeen listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Aberdeen31.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aberdeen91
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Aberdeen20
Zip codes with a Aberdeen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Aberdeen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.