Cooleemee, North Carolina.
Typical home $125,503 (-7.6% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$328 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,340 -8%
- $135,843$125,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,815 +8%
- $115,687$125,503 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.
- Cooleemee$659
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Cooleemee, NC fell 7.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cooleemee, Davie County, North Carolina
Cooleemee is a town of 940 people in Davie County. Half its households earn more than $46,750 a year and half less, against $75,057 across Davie County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Davie County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cooleemee is a very small town in Davie County, with a younger population than many small towns have. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and homes here cost far less than in much of the country. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a town where homeownership is so common.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Davie County, the biggest workplaces include Ashley Furniture Industries, Davie County Schools and Davie Medical Center. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, so many residents travel some distance to their jobs.
Things to do. The South Yadkin River and Boone's Cave Park are both a short drive away, for time by the water or a walk outdoors. Farther afield, Old Salem is a museum of early American life, and Lake Norman State Park is a protected area built around the lake, each a longer drive away. Winters are cool and summers warm, with a little snow most years and plenty of rain through the seasons.
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- 406households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davie County had 14,573 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mocksville 5SE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Davie County
- Ashley Furniture Industries - AdvanceFurniture manufacturer1,190
- Davie County SchoolsSchool district800FTE
- Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 75)Yarn spinning mills581
- Davie Medical CenterGeneral hospital410FTE
- Brakebush MocksvillePoultry processing397
- Avgol AmericaNonwoven fabrics manufacturing362
- Kontoor Brands Inc. Distribution Center MocksvilleGeneral warehousing and storage362
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters283
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,116 people in all across the county; Cooleemee has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Cooleemee’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 Davie County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Cooleemee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cooleemee$125,503
- 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.
- Cooleemee6
Zip codes with a Cooleemee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cooleemee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.