Duck, North Carolina.
Typical home $1,005,810 (+3.5% in a year). Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,208 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,421 +4%
- $971,390$1,005,810 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $225,504 +29%
- $780,306$1,005,810 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.
- Duck$5,279
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Duck, NC rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Duck, Dare County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Duck on its own, so the figures here are Dare County's. Half the county's households earn more than $88,994 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Dare County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dare County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Duck is a town on the Outer Banks, a chain of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina, in Dare County. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is worth far more than in most of the country. The typical resident is older than in most of the country, and winters are mild but cool, with summers warm and the year wetter than most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Professional and business services and shops also employ people across the county. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Wright Brothers National Memorial, a protected area, marks the site of the first powered flight and is a longer drive away. Jockey's Ridge State Park, also a protected area, is known for its large sand dunes and is likewise a longer drive away. Coquina Beach, a beach a longer drive away, offers a quieter stretch of sand.
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- 16,836households
- 49.0median age
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Dare County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dare County had 20,728 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbia Ag Gum Neck weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dare County
- Dare CountyGeneral public administration870
- Dare County SchoolsSchool district786FTE
- THE Outer Banks HospitalCritical access hospital324FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- TargetDiscount department stores167
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter126
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores110
- Spring Arbor ManagementAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities95
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,437 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dare County, 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 Dare County and the Kill Devil Hills, NC metro.
Duck home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duck$1,005,810
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 10 Duck 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.
- Duck10.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Duck42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Duck15
Zip codes with a Duck address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duck — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.