Cherryville, North Carolina.
Typical home $249,740 (+1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,075 . Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$787 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,942 +1%
- $246,797$249,740 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,635 +30%
- $192,104$249,740 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.
- Cherryville$1,311
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Cherryville, NC rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Cherryville, Gaston County, North Carolina
Cherryville is a city of 6,078 people in Gaston County. Half its households earn more than $70,625 a year and half less, against $67,478 across Gaston County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Gaston County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cherryville is a small city in Gaston County, North Carolina, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, mostly above freezing by day and below it at night, and a small amount of snow most years. Summers are warm to hot, with July the warmest month, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Cherryville are Walmart, Farris Fab and Machine, and Carolina Care Health and Rehabilitation. Gaston County has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. Most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, Beam's Shell Service Station and Office is a museum worth a visit. A longer drive away are Crowders Mountain State Park, a protected area for hiking and views, and High Shoals Falls, a waterfall. Kings Mountain National Military Park, also a longer drive away, is an archaeological site tied to the history of the region.
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- 2,316households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gaston County had 81,516 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 6 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincolnton West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherryville
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
- Cox EnterprisesOther support activities for road transportation driving services200
- Farris Fab and MachineMachine bases, metal, manufacturing155
- Carolina Care Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities144
- Peak Resources CherryvilleSkilled nursing facilities116
- PepsiCoOther grocery and related products merchant wholesalers74
- Food LionGrocery stores70
- Riddley Retail FixturesCabinets, wood, manufacturing52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,154 people in all. 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 in parts of CherryvilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cherryville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Gaston County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Cherryville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cherryville$249,740
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Cherryville listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Cherryville33.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cherryville69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cherryville13
Zip codes with a Cherryville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cherryville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.