Clarkton, North Carolina.
Typical home $143,357 (-3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$382 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,730 -3%
- $148,087$143,357 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,696 +11%
- $128,661$143,357 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.
- Clarkton$752
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Clarkton, NC fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina
Clarkton is a town of 614 people in Bladen County. Unemployment in Bladen County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 6.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bladen County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clarkton is a very small town in Bladen County, North Carolina, with a population well below what most people would think of as a town center. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and household incomes across Bladen County run below the typical American level. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in most years, while summers turn hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many. Across Bladen County, Bladen County Schools and Dynapar, a maker of industrial controllers, are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a typical commute is a little longer than a quick trip across town.
Things to do. Hammonds Creek, a river a short drive away, is the closest water to town. A longer drive brings you to Singletary Lake State Park and Jones Lake State Park, both protected areas with lakeside settings, and to Lake Waccamaw, a lake that is one of the larger natural lakes in the region.
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- 21 mintypical commute
What people in Bladen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bladen County had 12,522 jobs in 2025, 6.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whiteville Northwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bladen County
- Bladen County SchoolsSchool district552FTE
- DynaparTime cycle and program controllers, industrial process-type, manufacturing336
- The Chemours Company FC, LLC - FayettevilleFluorocarbon gases manufacturing294
- Smithfield FoodsCold storage warehousing260
- Fortrex - 0238 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Tar HeelJanitorial services211
- CR EnglandGeneral freight trucking long-distance truckload201
- Bladen Community CollegeTwo-year college187
- Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 71)Yarn spinning mills161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,780 people in all across the county; Clarkton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clarkton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Bladen County.
Clarkton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clarkton$143,357
- 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.
- Clarkton7
Zip codes with a Clarkton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clarkton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.