Castalia, North Carolina.
Typical home $208,061 (+2.6% in a year). Rocky Mount, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$629 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,356 +3%
- $202,705$208,061 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,006 +25%
- $166,055$208,061 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.
- Castalia$1,092
- 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 Castalia, NC rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Castalia, Nash County, North Carolina
Castalia is a town of 264 people in Nash County. Unemployment in Nash County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nash 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Castalia is a very small town in Nash County, North Carolina, home to only a small number of people. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute to work is a fairly ordinary one. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, with only a dusting of snow in a year, while summers run hot and rainfall is steady through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Nash County, some of the largest workplaces are the Cummins-Rocky Mount Engine Plant, Nash County Public Schools and Nash Hospitals. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area, and Buckhorn Reservoir offers open water, though both are a longer drive away. Families can head to Triangle Metro Zoo, also a longer drive, and the Imagination Station Science Museum is another trip of the same kind.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
What people in Nash County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nash County had 40,231 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisburg weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nash County
- Cummins-Rocky Mount Engine PlantEngines, natural gas, manufacturing1,924
- Nash County Public SchoolsSchool district1,817FTE
- Nash HospitalsGeneral hospital1,602FTE
- Barnhill Contracting CompanyOverpass construction1,012
- EdwardsHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors625
- First Carolina ManagementHotel management services497
- HoneywellAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing428
- Nash Community CollegeTwo-year college424
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 96 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,006 people in all across the county; Castalia 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Castalia’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 Nash County and the Rocky Mount, NC metro.
Castalia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Castalia$208,061
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Castalia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Castalia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.