Bunn, North Carolina.
Typical home $248,995 (+1.2% in a year). Raleigh-Cary, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,954 +1%
- $246,041$248,995 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,974 +28%
- $195,021$248,995 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.
- Bunn$1,307
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bunn, NC rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bunn, Franklin County, North Carolina
Bunn is a town of 327 people in Franklin County. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bunn is a very small town in Franklin County, North Carolina, with few residents compared with most towns in the state. Poverty is lower here than in many places, and homes are valued at a fairly moderate level. Winters are cold but short on snow, and summers run hot, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Franklin County, the largest workplaces include Franklin County Schools, KFlex and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Falls Lake is a reservoir and Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area, both a longer drive away. Pullen Park is a park in the same longer-drive range, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences offers an indoor option at a similar distance.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 14,549 jobs in 2025, 5.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisburg weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Franklin County SchoolsSchool district967FTE
- KFlexRubber tubing manufacturing285
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters225
- Amcor Rigid PackagingPharmaceutical manufacturing plant construction155
- PalzivPackaging, foam plastics, manufacturing154
- Gaines and companyConstruction management, water and sewer line132
- ProbynCourier services119
- Eaton116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,599 people in all across the county; Bunn has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bunn’s 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 Franklin County and the Raleigh-Cary, NC metro.
Bunn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bunn$248,995
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bunn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bunn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.