Burgaw, North Carolina.
Typical home $286,203 (+2.2% in a year). Wilmington, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$880 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,153 +2%
- $280,050$286,203 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,378 +30%
- $219,825$286,203 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.
- Burgaw$1,502
- 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 Burgaw, NC rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina
Burgaw is a town of 3,088 people in Pender County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Pender County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 9.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burgaw is a small town in Pender County, North Carolina, and its residents tend to be older than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect. Winters are mild, with cold spells but almost no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. People in Burgaw work mostly in professional and business services, manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Pender County Schools, Pender County Government and GAF. The typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of residents work from home. Across Pender County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has grown.
Things to do. Moores Creek National Battlefield is an archaeological site and a longer drive away, as is Airlie Gardens, a botanical garden. Also a longer drive away is the Cameron Art Museum, a museum. Together they offer history, gardens and art within reach of town for a day out.
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- 1,203households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pender County had 16,071 jobs in 2025, 9.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willard Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burgaw
- Pender County SchoolsSchool district1,188FTE
- Pender County GovernmentPersonnel offices, government641
- GAFRoofing, sheet metal, manufacturing240
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters167
- Pender Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital119FTE
- Laurel Health Care HoldingsNursing care facilities -skilled nursing facilities117
- AramarkFood service contractors112
- American Skin Food GroupPork rinds manufacturing92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,811 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Burgaw’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 Pender County and the Wilmington, NC metro.
Burgaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burgaw$286,203
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Burgaw listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Burgaw24.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burgaw42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burgaw11
Zip codes with a Burgaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burgaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.