Boomer, North Carolina.
Typical home $207,605 (+4.8% in a year). North Wilkesboro, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,587 +5%
- $198,019$207,605 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,543 +34%
- $155,063$207,605 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.
- Boomer$1,090
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Boomer, NC rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boomer, Wilkes County, North Carolina
Boomer is a township of 2,143 people in Wilkes County. Unemployment in Wilkes County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wilkes 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boomer is a small township in Wilkes County, in the foothills of western North Carolina. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn warm, with July the hottest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home here is priced well within reach of many households.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Wilkes County, the largest workplaces include Wilkes County Schools, Tyson Farms and Wilkes Community College. Incomes in the county run below those in much of the state, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly over the past year, though unemployment is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Moravian Falls, a waterfall, and Reddies River are both a short drive away, which makes for an easy outing to the water. A longer drive brings you to Stone Mountain State Park, a protected area of open country for walking, and to North Wilkesboro Speedway, a race track that draws motorsport fans.
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- 624households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Wilkes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wilkes County had 18,897 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 8 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Kerr Scott Resv weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilkes County
- Wilkes County SchoolsSchool district1,218FTE
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,159
- Wilkes Community CollegeTwo-year college693
- Wrmc Hospital OperatingGeneral hospital539FTE
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing324
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- EcmdHome centers, building materials279
- Jeld-WenWood window and door manufacturing196
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,649 people in all across the county; Boomer has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wilkes County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Wilkes County and the North Wilkesboro, NC metro.
Boomer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boomer$207,605
- 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.
- Boomer8
Zip codes with a Boomer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boomer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.