Ayden, North Carolina.
Typical home $223,596 (+2.1% in a year). Greenville, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$723 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,635 +2%
- $218,960$223,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,327 +43%
- $156,268$223,596 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.
- Ayden$1,174
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Ayden, NC rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ayden, Pitt County, North Carolina
Ayden is a town of 4,977 people in Pitt County. Half its households earn more than $42,413 a year and half less, against $58,188 across Pitt County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Pitt County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ayden is a small town in Pitt County, North Carolina, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a town this size. Winters are mild and cool, summers are hot, and snow is rare while rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Ayden are the Town of Ayden, Food Lion and Principle LTC, a nursing home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and very few work from home, so most people travel to a job each day, on a commute of a typical length for the area.
Things to do. A short drive away are Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium and Guy Smith Stadium, both stadiums for watching games. A longer drive brings you to Goose Creek State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and to the Tar River, a river for the water. The CSS Neuse museum is also a longer drive away, for those who like local history.
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- 2,279households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pitt County had 81,398 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ayden
- Town of AydenPublic property management services, government139
- Food LionGrocery stores76
- Principle LTCNursing homes51
- AydenMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 287 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of AydenRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ayden’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 Pitt County and the Greenville, NC metro.
Ayden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ayden$223,596
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ayden 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.
- Ayden26.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ayden45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ayden14
Zip codes with a Ayden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ayden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.