Camden, North Carolina.
Typical home $387,763 (+2.2% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,140 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,479 +2%
- $379,284$387,763 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,983 +32%
- $292,780$387,763 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.
- Camden$2,035
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Camden, NC rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Camden County, North Carolina
Camden, in Camden County, had 620 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Camden County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Camden County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a very small community in northeastern North Carolina, home to few people. Poverty is rare here, and homes carry a typical value well above what many small towns see. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot in July. The year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Across Camden County, jobs have grown scarcer over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Residents tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in government. Camden County Schools and Monarch, which runs group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, are among the county's largest workplaces.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Museum of the Albemarle is a good stop for regional history. Farther afield, Dismal Swamp State Park is a protected area of swamp forest, and Lake Drummond is a lake in the same wild country. Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 1%below the poverty line
What people in Camden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Camden County had 1,198 jobs in 2025, 5.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 72°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabeth City weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camden County
- Camden County SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- MonarchGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 27 people in all across the county; Camden has none 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 weatherVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camden’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 Camden County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$387,763
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Camden 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.
- Camden26.03%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Camden28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Camden7
Zip codes with a Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.