Claremont, North Carolina.
Typical home $255,950 (+2.3% in a year). Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$812 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,810 +2%
- $250,140$255,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,447 +34%
- $191,504$255,950 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.
- Claremont$1,343
- 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 Claremont, NC rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Claremont, Catawba County, North Carolina
Claremont is a city of 1,692 people in Catawba County. Unemployment in Catawba County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Catawba County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Claremont is a small city in Catawba County, with a population that is small enough for most people to know one another by sight. Typical home values are well within reach for many buyers in the region, and household incomes in the county are modest. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than the national picture might suggest. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and nights that dip below freezing, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Claremont itself has a strong industrial and freight side, and among its largest workplaces are Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, Williams-Sonoma and Southeastern Freight Lines. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has stayed about level. Most people drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is Hickory Motor Speedway, a race track, and Moretz Stadium, a stadium for local games. A longer drive brings you to Lake Norman, a large reservoir, and to Lake Norman State Park, a protected area good for walking and time by the water. Anyone who likes waterfalls can head farther out to McGalliard Falls.
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- 798households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Catawba County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Catawba County had 89,369 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Catawba Southwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Claremont
- Prysmian Cables and Systems USAGlass fiber, optical, made in glass making plants647
- Williams-SonomaWood framed furniture, upholstered, household-type, manufacturing442
- Cargo Transporters, Inc. (Claremont)Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload350
- Southeastern Freight LinesTrucking72
- Bonded LogisticsGeneral warehousing and storage49
- Kemp Sigmon Construction Co48
- Regency FibersAir laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing48
- Gabriella White - Claremont PlantFurniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,769 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- 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 Claremont’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 Catawba County and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro.
Claremont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Claremont$255,950
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Claremont listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Claremont15.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Claremont27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Claremont7
Zip codes with a Claremont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Claremont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.