Brevard, North Carolina.
Typical home $451,390 (-2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,998 . Brevard, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,429 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,653 -2%
- $461,043$451,390 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,067 +30%
- $347,323$451,390 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.
- Brevard$2,369
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Brevard, NC fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina
Brevard is a city of 7,744 people in Transylvania County. Half its households earn more than $54,103 a year and half less, against $66,184 across Transylvania County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Transylvania County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brevard is a small city in the mountains of western North Carolina, and its residents skew older than in most American places. Incomes are lower than across Transylvania County as a whole, and homes here cost a good deal more than the typical rent would suggest is easy to manage, so renting is common, with about as many renters as owners. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow add up to a lot over the course of a year.
Work. People who live in Brevard work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in town are Ingles Markets, Transylvania Community Hospital and Walmart. Commutes are short, many adults hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Pisgah National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, is a short drive away, as is the French Broad River. Brevard is well known for its waterfalls, and Key Falls is in or beside town, while Bridal Veil Falls is a short drive away.
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- 3,752households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Transylvania County had 9,751 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 7 inches of snow and 76 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brevard weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brevard
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores238
- Transylvania Community HospitalCritical access hospital154FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores128
- Monster Brewing Company - BrevardAle brewing98
- College Walk RetirementRetirement communities, continuing care93
- Food LionGrocery stores69
- Smith SystemsAlarm system central monitoring equipment manufacturing45
- US LBM HoldingsOther building material dealers41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,017 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brevard’s census tracts, 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 Transylvania County and the Brevard, NC metro.
Brevard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brevard$451,390
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brevard listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Brevard26.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brevard234
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brevard35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brevard$482,679
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Brevard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brevard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Brevard
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28712 | Brevard | 19,977 | $1,998 | $457,270 |
| 28772 | Rosman | 1,375 | — | $316,849 |