Bladenboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $132,957 (-1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$329 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,516 -2%
- $135,473$132,957 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,119 +4%
- $127,838$132,957 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.
- Bladenboro$698
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 88 years.
Typical home values in Bladenboro, NC fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bladenboro, Bladen County, North Carolina
Bladenboro is a town of 1,648 people in Bladen County. Unemployment in Bladen County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 6.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bladen County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bladenboro is a small town in Bladen County, North Carolina, with a population well under what you would find in a typical city. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes across the county sit below the state's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical trip to work is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining also providing jobs. Across Bladen County, Bladen County Schools and Dynapar are among the largest workplaces. Jobs across the county have grown scarcer over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Hammonds Creek and Bakers Creek are rivers a short drive away. Farther out, Jones Lake State Park is a protected area for walking and time by the water, and Lake Waccamaw is a lake a longer drive away. Winters are cool with very little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 865households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Bladen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bladen County had 12,522 jobs in 2025, 6.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whiteville Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bladen County
- Bladen County SchoolsSchool district552FTE
- DynaparTime cycle and program controllers, industrial process-type, manufacturing336
- The Chemours Company FC, LLC - FayettevilleFluorocarbon gases manufacturing294
- Smithfield FoodsCold storage warehousing260
- Fortrex - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar HeelJanitorial services211
- CR EnglandGeneral freight trucking long-distance truckload201
- Bladen Community CollegeTwo-year college187
- Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 71)Yarn spinning mills161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,780 people in all across the county; Bladenboro has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bladenboro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Bladen County.
Bladenboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bladenboro$132,957
- 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.
- Bladenboro13
Zip codes with a Bladenboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bladenboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.