Bethania, North Carolina.
Typical home $286,079 (+3.6% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$857 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,929 +4%
- $276,151$286,079 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,894 +30%
- $220,185$286,079 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.
- Bethania$1,502
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bethania, NC rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethania, Forsyth County, North Carolina
Bethania is a town of 344 people in Forsyth County. Half its households earn more than $87,866 a year and half less, against $67,165 across Forsyth County. Unemployment in Forsyth County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Forsyth 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethania is a very small town in Forsyth County, with far fewer residents than most towns of any kind. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and homes here are valued at a good deal more than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that dip below freezing, while July brings hot summer afternoons. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Forsyth County, some of the largest workplaces are North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Wake Forest University and Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive brings you to Old Salem, a museum, and to Reynolda House Museum of American Art, one of the best known places nearby. Reynolda Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. For a day outdoors, Hanging Rock State Park, a protected area with waterfalls, is a longer drive.
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What people in Forsyth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Forsyth County had 190,305 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pfafftown weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forsyth County
- North Carolina Baptist Hospital-Medical Center Blvd(1253)Hospitals, general medical and surgical11,034
- Wake Forest UniversityUniversity or college8,812
- Winston Salem / Forsyth County SchoolsSchool district7,143FTE
- Forsyth Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital5,295FTE
- Inmar IntelligenceWarehousing1,660
- Raynolds AmericanTobacco products merchant wholesalers1,650
- Forsyth Technical Community CollegeTwo-year college1,537
- RJ Reynolds Tobacco CompanySmoking tobacco manufacturing1,207
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 355 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 65,489 people in all across the county; Bethania has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Bethania’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 Forsyth County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Bethania home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethania$286,079
- 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 Bethania address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethania — 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.