East Bend, North Carolina.
Typical home $260,224 (+5.0% in a year). Winston-Salem, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$735 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,339 +5%
- $247,885$260,224 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,176 +27%
- $205,048$260,224 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.
- East Bend$1,366
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in East Bend, NC rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in East Bend, Yadkin County, North Carolina
East Bend is a town of 634 people in Yadkin County. Half its households earn more than $59,219 a year and half less, against $62,932 across Yadkin County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Yadkin County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yadkin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. East Bend is a very small town in Yadkin County, in the western Piedmont of North Carolina. Almost everyone here owns their home, far more than across the county as a whole, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades and in shops. Across Yadkin County, the largest workplaces include Lydech Thermal Acoustical, Yadkin County Schools and Unifi Manufacturing. The trip to work is a long one for many people, and a small number work from home. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, though joblessness is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Pilot Mountain State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Hanging Rock State Park, another protected area known for its waterfalls, including Tory's Falls. For a day among museums, Old Salem is also a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Yadkin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yadkin County had 9,954 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yadkinville East weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yadkin County
- Lydech Thermal AcousticalMoldings and trim, motor vehicle, stamping837
- Yadkin County SchoolsSchool district702FTE
- B & G Foods YadkinvilleBakery products, dry, manufacturing250
- Unifi ManufacturingPolyester filament yarn throwing, twisting, texturizing, or winding of purchased yarn230
- FerrellgasPropane distribution212
- PVHGeneral warehousing and storage210
- Southland TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload200
- Unifi ManufacturingGeneral warehousing and storage184
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,869 people in all across the county; East Bend has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in East Bend’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 Yadkin County and the Winston-Salem, NC metro.
East Bend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- East Bend$260,224
- 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.
- East Bend10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a East Bend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls East Bend — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.