Buxton, North Carolina.
Typical home $469,121 (+0.4% in a year). Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,367 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,742 +0%
- $467,380$469,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,835 +23%
- $382,287$469,121 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.
- Buxton$2,462
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Buxton, NC rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buxton, Dare County, North Carolina
Buxton, in Dare County, had 1,181 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Dare County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dare County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buxton is a small community on North Carolina's Outer Banks, in Dare County. Winters are mild, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are hot and wet through the year. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in professional and business services and in shops. Across Dare County, the largest workplaces include Dare County itself, Dare County Schools and The Outer Banks Hospital. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and there are slightly more jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a protected stretch of coast, is a short drive away. The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, also a short drive away, tells the story of the many ships lost off this coast. A short drive away as well is the wreck of the Ephraim Williams, an archaeological site. For a longer outing, the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station is a museum a longer drive up the coast.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Dare County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dare County had 20,728 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 75°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Frisco 2NNE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dare County
- Dare CountyGeneral public administration870
- Dare County SchoolsSchool district786FTE
- THE Outer Banks HospitalCritical access hospital324FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- TargetDiscount department stores167
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter126
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores110
- Spring Arbor ManagementAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,437 people in all across the county; Buxton has two of its own. 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Buxton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Dare County and the Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
Buxton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buxton$469,121
- 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 7 Buxton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Buxton13.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buxton22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buxton6
Zip codes with a Buxton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buxton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.