Coinjock, North Carolina.
Typical home $439,756 (+1.5% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,307 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,642 +2%
- $433,113$439,756 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,145 +25%
- $350,611$439,756 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.
- Coinjock$2,308
- 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 Coinjock, NC rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coinjock, Currituck County, North Carolina
Coinjock, in Currituck County, had 337 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Currituck County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Currituck County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coinjock is a very small community in Currituck County, North Carolina, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, and household incomes across Currituck County run above the national norm. Winters are cool and fairly mild, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Across Currituck County, unemployment is low and has edged down compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Many people here work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the county's largest workplaces are Currituck County Schools, the County of Currituck and Food Lion.
Things to do. The North River is a short drive away, and so is North River Game Land, a protected area of the kind often used for walking and watching wildlife. A longer drive brings you to the Wright Brothers National Memorial, a protected area. Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area a longer drive off.
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What people in Currituck County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Currituck County had 7,313 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 71°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabeth City Cgas weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Currituck County
- Currituck County SchoolsSchool district616FTE
- County of CurrituckBudget agencies, government557
- Food LionGrocery stores91
- Food LionGrocery stores82
- Food LionGrocery stores73
- Carter LumberBuilding materials dealer52
- VacasaTravel accomodation39
- Currituck HouseAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,005 people in all across the county; Coinjock has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coinjock’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Currituck County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Coinjock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coinjock$439,756
- 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.
- Coinjock4
Zip codes with a Coinjock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coinjock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.