Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina.
Typical home $314,867 (+0.4% in a year). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$908 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,133 +0%
- $313,734$314,867 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,862 +23%
- $256,005$314,867 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.
- Boiling Spring Lakes$1,653
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Boiling Spring Lakes, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boiling Spring Lakes, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Boiling Spring Lakes is a city of 5,943 people in Brunswick County. Half its households earn more than $62,676 a year and half less, against $77,024 across Brunswick County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Brunswick County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boiling Spring Lakes is a small coastal North Carolina city where residents tend to be older than in much of the country, and where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are well above what that income might suggest. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights, and summers are hot, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services. Across Brunswick County, the biggest workplaces include Brunswick County Schools, Brunswick County Government and Duke Energy. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A fair number of residents work from home, and commutes are of a middling length.
Things to do. For a short outing, Carolina Beach State Park is a protected area a short drive away. Brunswick Town is a museum a short drive away, close to the archaeological site of St. Philip's Church, which is also a short drive away. With a longer drive, the Cameron Art Museum is an art museum worth the trip.
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- 2,937households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brunswick County had 43,201 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Southport North weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brunswick County
- Brunswick County SchoolsSchool district1,687FTE
- Brunswick County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government1,405
- Duke EnergyNuclear electric power generation1,019
- VictaulicCouplings, hose, metal, manufacturing492
- Brunswick Medical CenterGeneral hospital472FTE
- Brunswick Community CollegeTwo-year college393
- Atlantic Telephone MembershipOn-line access service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure379
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,087 people in all across the county; Boiling Spring Lakes has one 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boiling Spring Lakes’ 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 Brunswick County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Boiling Spring Lakes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boiling Spring Lakes$314,867
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Boiling Spring Lakes listings — 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.
- Boiling Spring Lakes32.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boiling Spring Lakes45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boiling Spring Lakes9
Zip codes with a Boiling Spring Lakes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boiling Spring Lakes — 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.