Danbury, North Carolina.
Typical home $242,413 (+8.5% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$752 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,961 +8%
- $223,452$242,413 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,004 +44%
- $168,409$242,413 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.
- Danbury$1,272
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Danbury, NC rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danbury, Stokes County, North Carolina
Danbury is a town of 189 people in Stokes County. Unemployment in Stokes County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stokes 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danbury is a very small town and the seat of Stokes County in the North Carolina Piedmont. Home values here are well above what the county's lower incomes might suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Stokes County, the largest workplaces include Stokes County Schools, the County of Stokes and Walmart. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment is lower now than it was a year ago. Very few residents work from home.
Things to do. Window Falls and Hidden Falls are waterfalls in or beside town, and Moratock Park, a protected area, is close by as well. A short drive away is Hanging Rock State Park, a protected area with more waterfalls nearby, including Lower Cascades. For a longer outing, Old Salem is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Stokes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stokes County had 7,553 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danbury weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stokes County
- Stokes County SchoolsSchool district772FTE
- County of StokesPersonnel offices, government580
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- wielandCopper and copper-based shapes made from purchased metal or scrap228
- King OperatorSkilled nursing facilities104
- Village Care of KingSkilled nursing facilities101
- Lifebrite Comm Hosp of StokesCritical access hospital98FTE
- City of KingMunicipal government97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,648 people in all across the county; Danbury has one 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danbury’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 Stokes County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Danbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danbury$242,413
- 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.
- Danbury11
Zip codes with a Danbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.