Clarendon, North Carolina.
Typical home $208,186 (+10.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$8 (+1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $20,184 +11%
- $188,002$208,186 since Sep 2025
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.
- Clarendon$1,093
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Clarendon, NC rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clarendon, Columbus County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Clarendon on its own, so the figures here are Columbus County's. Half the county's households earn more than $49,442 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Columbus County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Columbus County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clarendon is in Columbus County in southeastern North Carolina, where the typical resident is middle-aged and most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Winters here are colder than most of the country, though snow is rare, and the summers are hot. The area gets a good deal of rain over the year, so the land stays well watered.
Work. Across Columbus County, residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, but unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Few people here work from home, so most commute to a workplace outside the house.
Things to do. Lake Waccamaw is a lake a longer drive away, and Lake Waccamaw State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. For a different kind of outing, Lumber River State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 20,048households
- 42.6median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Columbus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbus County had 14,316 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longwood weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbus County
- Columbus County SchoolsSchool district683FTE
- Columbus Regional Healthcare SystemGeneral hospital468FTE
- Southeastern Community CollegeTwo-year college335
- Whiteville City SchoolsSchool district309FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- West Fraser ArmourBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts150
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter137
- Liberty Commons Columbus CountySkilled nursing facilities120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,435 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Columbus County, 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 Columbus County.
Clarendon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clarendon$208,186
- 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 Clarendon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clarendon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.