Boiling Springs, North Carolina.
Typical home $261,908 (+2.4% in a year). Shelby, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,190 +2%
- $255,718$261,908 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,936 +21%
- $215,971$261,908 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 Springs$1,375
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Boiling Springs, NC rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Boiling Springs is a town of 4,615 people in Cleveland County. Unemployment in Cleveland County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boiling Springs is a small town in Cleveland County, and its residents are far younger than in most American towns, which gives it the feel of a college town. Few people here live below the poverty line, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool, coldest in January with only a little snow, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Across Cleveland County, the largest workplaces include Cleveland County Schools, Atrium Health Cleveland and Gardner-Webb University. Jobs across the county slipped last year, and unemployment there has eased a little compared with a year earlier. Typical commutes are moderate, and a modest group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Ernest W. Spangler Stadium is in or beside town. A short drive away, the Broad River Greenway is a protected area for time outdoors, and the First Broad River offers a stretch of water close to home. Farther out, Crowders Mountain State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 1,146households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleveland County had 35,958 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shelby Northwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleveland County
- Cleveland County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
- Atrium Health ClevelandGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,422
- Gardner-Webb UniversityUniversity or college608
- Cleveland Community CollegeTwo-year college567
- Catawba Two Kings Casino494
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- Electric Glass Fiber AmericaGlass fiber, textile type, made in glass making plants404
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,307 people in all across the county; Boiling Springs 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boiling Springs’ 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 Cleveland County and the Shelby, NC metro.
Boiling Springs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boiling Springs$261,908
- 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.
- Boiling Springs11
Zip codes with a Boiling Springs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boiling Springs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.