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Eastover, North Carolina.

A town in Cumberland County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Cumberland County’s.

Living in Eastover, Cumberland County, North Carolina

Eastover is a town of 3,656 people in Cumberland County. Half its households earn more than $85,156 a year and half less, against $61,291 across Cumberland County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cumberland County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 3,656 in the 2020 census
Household income $85,156 the median, give or take $20,830 · Cumberland County: $61,291
Unemployment 4.6% Cumberland County, August 2026; 5.2% a year before
Homes 86% lived in by their owners; 14% rented
  • 1,383households
  • 32%of adults have a degree
  • 13%below the poverty line
  • 23 mintypical commute
  • 11%work from home

What people in Cumberland County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care26%
  • Shops (retail)13%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment10%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Manufacturing9%
  • Government7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 122,272 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 32°; warmest in July, 91° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 32° F M A M J J 91° 71° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 32°; warmest in July, 91° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 32° F M A M J J 91° 71° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fayetteville (pwc) weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Cumberland County

  1. Cumberland County SchoolsSchool district6,508FTE
  2. Cape Fear Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,804FTE
  3. Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,451
  4. County of CumberlandExecutive and legislative office combinations2,165
  5. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company - FayettevilleTire manufacture2,006
  6. WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,426
  7. Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeTwo-year college1,315
  8. City of FayettevilleFire departments)1,149

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,085 people in all across the county; Eastover 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), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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

  1. Winter weatherRelatively high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively high
  3. Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of EastoverRelatively moderate
  4. WildfireRelatively moderate
  5. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  6. Heat wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eastover’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 Cumberland County.