Dudley, North Carolina.
Typical home $128,017 (-6.5% in a year). Goldsboro, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$329 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,878 -6%
- $136,895$128,017 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,984 +15%
- $111,034$128,017 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.
- Dudley$672
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Dudley, NC fell 6.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dudley, Wayne County, North Carolina
Dudley, in Wayne County, had 826 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dudley is a very small community in Wayne County, North Carolina, where homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rare event, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a generous amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Wayne County Public Schools, Wayne Memorial Hospital and Case Farms Goldsboro Processing Plant. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before, and the typical commute is a bit longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest place for a walk outdoors. Stoney Creek and Little River, both rivers, are also a short drive away. For a museum, the Ava Gardner Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 41,053 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Goldsboro Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Wayne County Public SchoolsSchool district2,128FTE
- Wayne Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,336FTE
- County of WayneGeneral public administration1,077
- Case Farms Goldsboro Processing PlantChickens, slaughtering and dressing1,060
- Cherry HospitalPsychiatric hospital977FTE
- Wayne Community CollegeTwo-year college564
- Dudley Plywood494
- DHHS North CarolinaIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities457
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 109 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,748 people in all across the county; Dudley has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dudley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wayne County and the Goldsboro, NC metro.
Dudley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dudley$128,017
- 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.
- Dudley15
Zip codes with a Dudley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dudley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.