Calabash, North Carolina.
Typical home $350,205 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,969 . Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,067 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,741 +2%
- $344,465$350,205 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,151 +26%
- $278,054$350,205 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.
- Calabash$1,838
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Calabash, NC rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calabash, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Calabash is a town of 2,011 people in Brunswick County. Half its households earn more than $65,310 a year and half less, against $77,024 across Brunswick County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Brunswick County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brunswick County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calabash is a small town on the North Carolina coast, with an older population than most places in the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though incomes run below the county's and homes here cost a good deal to buy or rent. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Brunswick County, the largest workplaces include Brunswick County Schools, Duke Energy and Brunswick Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Little River, a river a short drive away, is the closest outing on the list. A longer drive takes you to the Grand Strand, the well-known beach stretch, and to Lake Waccamaw State Park, a protected area built around a lake. Families with children can also make a longer drive to Family Kingdom Amusement Park.
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- 1,142households
- 22%of adults have a degree
What people in Brunswick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brunswick County had 43,201 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longwood weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brunswick County
- Brunswick County SchoolsSchool district1,687FTE
- Brunswick County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government1,405
- Duke EnergyNuclear electric power generation1,019
- VictaulicCouplings, hose, metal, manufacturing492
- Brunswick Medical CenterGeneral hospital472FTE
- Brunswick Community CollegeTwo-year college393
- Atlantic Telephone MembershipOn-line access service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure379
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,087 people in all across the county; Calabash has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of CalabashRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of CalabashRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calabash’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 Brunswick County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Calabash home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calabash$350,205
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Calabash listings, and the typical home goes pending in 81 days — 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.
- Calabash30.72%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Calabash81
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Calabash239
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Calabash38
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Calabash address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calabash — 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.