Conway, North Carolina.
Typical home $106,308 (+6.2% in a year). Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$313 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,211 +6%
- $100,097$106,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,845 +15%
- $92,462$106,308 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.
- Conway$558
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Conway, NC rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Conway, Northampton County, North Carolina
Conway is a town of 752 people in Northampton County. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Northampton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Conway is a very small town in Northampton County, North Carolina, in the state's northeastern corner. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Northampton County run below the typical level for the state. Winters are cool, with little snow, and summers are hot, with steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many people. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many other places, and few work from home. Across Northampton County, the largest workplaces include Northampton County Schools, Severn Hampton Farms, which makes roasted nuts and peanut butter, and Hampton Farms, which handles postharvest crop work.
Things to do. The Brady C. Jefcoat Museum is a short drive away, as is Garrison Stadium. Worrell Mill Swamp, a short drive away, offers waterside scenery close to home. For a longer outing, the Meherrin River is a longer drive away.
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- 365households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%work from home
What people in Northampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 4,699 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murfreesboro weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton County
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse531
- Northampton CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local474
- Northampton County SchoolsSchool district251FTE
- Severn Hampton FarmsRoasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing248
- KIPP Gaston College Preparatory SchoolsSchool district187FTE
- Hampton FarmsPostharvest crop activities183
- West Fraser, Inc Seaboard Lumber MillSawmills159
- Glover Construction CoExcavation contractors124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,208 people in all across the county; Conway has one 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Conway’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 Northampton County and the Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
Conway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Conway$106,308
- 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 Conway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Conway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.