Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
Typical home $450,686 (+0.5% in a year). Boone, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,592 (+206%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,149 +0%
- $448,537$450,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,102 +35%
- $333,584$450,686 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.
- Beech Mountain$2,366
- 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 Beech Mountain, NC rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beech Mountain, Watauga County, North Carolina
Beech Mountain is a town of 675 people in Watauga County. Half its households earn more than $90,855 a year and half less, against $51,693 across Watauga County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Watauga County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Watauga County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beech Mountain is a very small mountain town where the population skews older than most places and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live in poverty than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering near freezing and a good deal of snow, while summers stay mild and cool for the region.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Watauga County, the largest workplaces include Watauga County Schools, Watauga Medical Center and Tweetsie Railroad. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is a bit longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. Land of Oz, an amusement park, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are North Toe River and Julian Price Memorial Park, a park for walking and time outdoors. For a longer drive, Linville Falls is a waterfall, and Bristol Motor Speedway is a race track.
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- 515households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 30%work from home
What people in Watauga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Watauga County had 24,591 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 69° and lows near 57°. About 66 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beech Mountain weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Watauga County
- Watauga County SchoolsSchool district684FTE
- Watauga Medical CenterGeneral hospital682FTE
- Tweetsie RailroadAmusement parks325
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- Lees-McRae CollegeUniversity or college266
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter189
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores176
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores146
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,468 people in all across the county; Beech Mountain has none of its own. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of Beech MountainRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Beech MountainRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Beech MountainRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beech Mountain’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 Watauga County and the Boone, NC metro.
Beech Mountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beech Mountain$450,686
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Beech Mountain listings, and the typical home goes pending in 51 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.
- Beech Mountain18.84%
- 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.
- Beech Mountain141
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beech Mountain23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Beech Mountain$369,141
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Beech Mountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beech Mountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.