Casar, North Carolina.
Typical home $143,083 (+0.5% in a year). Shelby, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$326 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $768 +1%
- $142,315$143,083 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $11,064 -7%
- $154,147$143,083 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.
- Casar$751
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Casar, NC rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Casar, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Casar is a town of 305 people in Cleveland County. Half its households earn more than $60,875 a year and half less, against $58,534 across Cleveland County. Unemployment in Cleveland County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cleveland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Casar is a very small town in Cleveland County, North Carolina, with a population too small to fill more than a few streets. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a typical home is valued at a modest sum compared with much of the country. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and nights that dip below freezing, while July brings hot summers, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Cleveland County, some of the largest workplaces are Cleveland County Schools, Atrium Health Cleveland and Gardner-Webb University. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a typical commute is a long one compared with many small towns.
Things to do. High Shoals Falls, a waterfall, and South Mountains State Park, a protected area of woods and trails, are both a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake James, a reservoir, is a longer drive and suits a day out on the water.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
What people in Cleveland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleveland County had 35,958 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vale Ag Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleveland County
- Cleveland County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
- Atrium Health ClevelandGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,422
- Gardner-Webb UniversityUniversity or college608
- Cleveland Community CollegeTwo-year college567
- Catawba Two Kings Casino494
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- Electric Glass Fiber AmericaGlass fiber, textile type, made in glass making plants404
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,307 people in all across the county; Casar has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Casar’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 Cleveland County and the Shelby, NC metro.
Casar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Casar$143,083
- 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 Casar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Casar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.