Denton, North Carolina.
Typical home $263,575 (+6.4% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$823 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,843 +6%
- $247,732$263,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,347 +36%
- $193,228$263,575 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.
- Denton$1,383
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Denton, NC rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denton, Davidson County, North Carolina
Denton is a town of 1,494 people in Davidson County. Half its households earn more than $50,847 a year and half less, against $64,172 across Davidson County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Davidson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denton is a small town in Davidson County, North Carolina, with a population that makes it the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Residents are younger on the whole than in many small towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes are below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain and a little melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, or in shops. Manufacturing is visible in town itself, where some of the largest workplaces are Construction Implement Depot, Ultra-Mek and Kaufman Trailers. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and the commute to work is a long one for many people, with few working from home.
Things to do. High Rock Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time on the water. Abbotts Creek, a river, is also a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Uwharrie National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, and to the North Carolina Zoo.
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- 619households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davidson County had 46,241 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 67°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Asheboro West weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Denton
- Construction Implement DepotTractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing251
- Ultra-MekMetal stampings, unfinished, manufacturing136
- Kaufman TrailersUtility trailers manufacturing25
- Ultra-MekStampings, metal, unfinished, manufacturing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 434 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denton’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 Davidson County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
Denton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denton$263,575
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Denton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Denton23.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Denton49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Denton8
Zip codes with a Denton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.