Crouse, North Carolina.
Typical home $288,479 (+3.2% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$901 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,935 +3%
- $279,544$288,479 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,135 +32%
- $219,345$288,479 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.
- Crouse$1,514
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Crouse, NC rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crouse, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Crouse, in Lincoln County, had 322 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crouse is a very small community in Lincoln County, North Carolina, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are worth more than many homes in the region, and the figures show no one living below the poverty line. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with only a little snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in professional and business services. Across Lincoln County, some of the largest workplaces are Lincoln County Schools, Atrium Health Lincoln and Robert Bosch Tool, which makes saw blades. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The closest spot on the list is Beam's Shell Service Station and Office, a small museum a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Crowders Mountain State Park, a protected area for hiking and open air, and to Lake Norman, a large reservoir good for time on the water. Kings Mountain National Military Park, an archaeological site with a historic battlefield, is also a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 28,818 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 6 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincolnton West weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln County SchoolsSchool district1,387FTE
- The Timken Company603
- Atrium Health LincolnGeneral hospital524FTE
- Robert Bosch ToolMetal cutting saw blades manufacturing491
- BlumCabinet hardware, metal, manufacturing478
- LeeBoyGraders, road, manufacturing438
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters386
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters342
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 60 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,397 people in all across the county; Crouse 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Crouse’s census tracts, 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 Lincoln County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Crouse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crouse$288,479
- 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.
- Crouse10
Zip codes with a Crouse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crouse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.