Bolivia, North Carolina.
, asking rent $1,991 (+2.4%). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$964 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Asking rents in Bolivia, NC rose 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Living in Bolivia, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Bolivia is a town of 149 people in Brunswick County. 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 people in Brunswick 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bolivia is a very small town and the seat of Brunswick County, in the southeastern corner of North Carolina. Winters are mild, with cool days and nights that stay just above freezing, while July is hot and the year brings plenty of rain. Rents are on the high side for a place this size, and poverty is lower than many people might expect.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Brunswick County, the largest workplaces include Brunswick County Schools, Brunswick County Government and Duke Energy. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Green Swamp, a protected area of wet woodland, is a short drive away. Farther off, a longer drive reaches Fort Fisher, a historic fort, and Carolina Beach State Park, a protected area. The Cameron Art Museum is also a longer drive away for those who want an afternoon indoors.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Brunswick County 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, 10 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; Bolivia 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Bolivia’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 Brunswick County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Bolivia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Bolivia listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bolivia31.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bolivia155
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bolivia35
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bolivia97.79%
Zip codes with a Bolivia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolivia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.