Ash, North Carolina.
Typical home $269,920 (+0.2% in a year). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $559 +0%
- $269,360$269,920 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,523 +15%
- $234,396$269,920 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.
- Ash$1,417
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Ash, NC rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ash, Brunswick County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Ash on its own, so the figures here are Brunswick County's. Half the county's households earn more than $77,024 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Brunswick County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brunswick County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ash is a small community in Brunswick County, in the southeastern corner of North Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older on average than in the country as a whole. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents across the county tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, professional and business services, and the building trades. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown over the same period. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home while many others make the trip to work by car.
Things to do. Green Swamp, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits quiet walks and time outdoors. Orton Plantation, a botanical garden, and Brunswick Town, a museum, are a longer drive away and are good choices for a day out.
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- 69,124households
- 56.4median age
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Brunswick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brunswick County had 43,201 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longwood weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brunswick County
- Brunswick County SchoolsSchool district1,687FTE
- Brunswick County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government1,405
- Duke EnergyNuclear electric power generation1,019
- VictaulicCouplings, hose, metal, manufacturing492
- Brunswick Medical CenterGeneral hospital472FTE
- Brunswick Community CollegeTwo-year college393
- Atlantic Telephone MembershipOn-line access service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure379
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,087 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Brunswick County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Brunswick County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Ash home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ash$269,920
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ash12
Zip codes with a Ash address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ash — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.