Badin, North Carolina.
Typical home $189,882 (+2.9% in a year). Albemarle, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$643 (+182%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,335 +3%
- $184,547$189,882 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,836 +40%
- $136,047$189,882 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.
- Badin$997
- 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 Badin, NC rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Badin, Stanly County, North Carolina
Badin is a town of 2,024 people in Stanly County. Half its households earn more than $53,145 a year and half less, against $60,704 across Stanly County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Stanly County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stanly 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Badin is a small town in Stanly County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where the population is older than in many American towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are mild and short, with only a dusting of snow in most years. Summers turn hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. People in Badin work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades close behind. Across Stanly County, some of the biggest employers are Stanly County Schools, Atrium Health Stanly and Michelin Aircraft Tire Co. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. The typical commute is moderate, and a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Badin Lake, a reservoir, lies in or beside town, and Uwharrie National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. Morrow Mountain, another protected area, sits in or beside town as well. For a longer outing, Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 514households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Stanly County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stanly County had 23,791 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° 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 Albemarle weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanly County
- Stanly County SchoolsSchool district1,012FTE
- Stanly Community CollegeTwo-year college584
- Atrium Health StanlyGeneral hospital546FTE
- Cast Iron DivisionCast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing543
- Michelin Aircraft Tire CoAircraft tire manufacturing489
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- MonarchHuman services non-profit287
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,925 people in all across the county; Badin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Badin’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 Stanly County and the Albemarle, NC metro.
Badin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Badin$189,882
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Badin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Badin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.