Advance, North Carolina.
Typical home $413,310 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,986 . Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,170 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,384 +2%
- $403,926$413,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,799 +25%
- $331,511$413,310 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.
- Advance$2,169
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Advance, NC rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Advance, Davie County, North Carolina
Advance, in Davie County, had 1,499 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $115,391 a year and half less, against $75,057 across Davie County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Davie County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Davie County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Advance is a small community in Davie County, North Carolina, with a population that has stayed modest. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes and rents are on the pricey side, and few people here work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Across Davie County, the largest workplaces include Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance, Davie County Schools and Davie Medical Center. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Tanglewood Park is a protected area with walking space, and its Arboretum and Rose Garden is a botanical garden close by. The Richard Childress Racing Museum, also a short drive away, suits anyone interested in stock car racing. For a longer outing, Old Salem is a museum town that is a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with only light snow, and summers are warm.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Davie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davie County had 14,573 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mocksville 5SE weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Davie County
- Ashley Furniture Industries - AdvanceFurniture manufacturer1,190
- Davie County SchoolsSchool district800FTE
- Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 75)Yarn spinning mills581
- Davie Medical CenterGeneral hospital410FTE
- Brakebush MocksvillePoultry processing397
- Avgol AmericaNonwoven fabrics manufacturing362
- Kontoor Brands Inc. Distribution Center MocksvilleGeneral warehousing and storage362
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters283
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,116 people in all across the county; Advance has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Advance’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Davie County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Advance home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Advance$413,310
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Advance listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Advance27.24%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Advance67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Advance23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Advance address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Advance — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.