Eden, North Carolina.
Typical home $146,905 (-1.3% in a year), asking rent $1,028 . Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$366 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,949 -1%
- $148,854$146,905 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,238 +7%
- $137,667$146,905 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.
- Eden$771
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in Eden, NC fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina
Eden is a city of 15,421 people in Rockingham County. Half its households earn more than $47,260 a year and half less, against $57,053 across Rockingham County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eden is a city in Rockingham County, in north-central North Carolina. Household incomes here are lower than the county's as a whole, and a sizable share of residents live below the poverty line, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, summers are hot and peak in July, snowfall is modest, and rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Rockingham County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county has also lost jobs compared with the year before. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and few residents work from home, so most people travel out each day.
Things to do. The Smith River and Matrimony Creek run in or beside town, so open water is never far away. For a longer drive, Mayo River State Park is a protected area, and Window Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away. Martinsville Speedway, a race track, lies a longer drive away as well.
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- 6,410households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 23,947 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eden weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eden
- GildanGeneral warehousing and storage516
- Nestle Purina Petcare - EdenDog and cat food, manufacturing511
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters279
- UNC Rockingham HospitalGeneral hospital249FTE
- WM TechnologiesBoilers, heating, manufacturing171
- Carolina FreightwaysGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload125
- Eden Rehabilitation and HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities94
- Food LionGrocery stores72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,224 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of EdenRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of EdenRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eden’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 Rockingham County and the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro.
Eden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eden$146,905
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Eden listings, and the typical home goes pending in 30 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Eden22.64%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Eden30
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eden138
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eden26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Eden$150,340
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Eden95.69%
Zip codes with a Eden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.