Candor, North Carolina.
Typical home $153,135 (+5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$470 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,742 +5%
- $145,393$153,135 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,418 +33%
- $114,716$153,135 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.
- Candor$804
- 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 Candor, NC rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Candor, Montgomery County, North Carolina
Candor is a town of 813 people in Montgomery County. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Candor is a very small town in Montgomery County, one of the smaller places in the state. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are mild and brief, with snow only now and then, while summers turn hot and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery County Schools, Montgomery Community College and Jordan Lumber & Supply. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and almost nobody works from home. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, though unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Uwharrie National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, is a longer drive away. So is Lake Tillery, a reservoir suited to a day on the water. Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 8,771 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Springs Wnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Pathway Insurance Company NIPCAM SERVICES OF NC PLANTPoultry processing540
- Montgomery County SchoolsSchool district495FTE
- Jordan Lumber & SupplySawmills364
- Montgomery Community CollegeTwo-year college219
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- Mohawk IndustriesFiberboard165
- Saputo Cheese USABeverages, milk based, manufacturing152
- McRae Footwear Division- WadevilleBoots, rubber or rubber soled fabric upper, manufacturing147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,115 people in all across the county; Candor has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Candor’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 Montgomery County.
Candor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Candor$153,135
- 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 Candor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Candor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.