Bennett, North Carolina.
Typical home $247,569 (+6.8% in a year). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$735 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,695 +7%
- $231,874$247,569 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,925 +25%
- $198,644$247,569 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.
- Bennett$1,299
- 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 Bennett, NC rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bennett, Chatham County, North Carolina
Bennett, in Chatham County, had 284 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Chatham County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chatham County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bennett is a very small community in Chatham County, North Carolina, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are typically valued below what is common across the county, and the county's household incomes are on the higher side. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with very little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Chatham County, some of the largest workplaces are Mountaire Farms, Chatham County Schools and Carolina Meadows, a continuing care retirement community. The drive to work is a moderate one, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Brush Creek and Buffalo Creek are streams a short drive away, and the Haw River and the Cape Fear River are rivers a longer drive off. Farther afield, the North Carolina Zoo is a longer drive away, and so is Uwharrie National Forest, a protected area for time outdoors.
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- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Chatham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chatham County had 20,318 jobs in 2025, 9.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Siler City North weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chatham County
- Mountaire FarmsChickens, slaughtering and dressing1,400
- Chatham County SchoolsSchool district1,156FTE
- Carolina MeadowsConitnuing care retirement community500
- Pathway Insurance Company NIPCAM SERVICES OF NC SILER CITYPoultry processing314
- FedExCourier and express delivery services302
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Rand Coca-Cola BeveragesBeer merchant wholesalers211
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,690 people in all across the county; Bennett has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bennett’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 Chatham County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Bennett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bennett$247,569
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bennett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bennett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.