Efland, North Carolina.
Typical home $379,438 (-1.7% in a year). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,104 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,431 -2%
- $385,869$379,438 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,382 +26%
- $302,056$379,438 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.
- Efland$1,992
- 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 Efland, NC fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Efland, Orange County, North Carolina
Efland, in Orange County, had 852 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Orange County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Efland is a very small community in Orange County, North Carolina, with fewer residents than most towns that appear on a map. Winters are cold without being severe, with January days staying cool and nights dropping to the freezing mark, while summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, so the area stays green. Homes here are valued above what is typical across much of the country, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Orange County, the largest workplaces include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina Hospitals and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Unemployment in the county has stayed low and is slightly lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Close to home, Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area is a protected area a short drive away, and Occoneechee Speedway, a race track, is also nearby. A longer drive brings you to the North Carolina Botanical Garden, and the Ackland Art Museum offers a museum visit for a rainy day.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 79,536 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durham West weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity or college15,202
- University of North Carolina HospGeneral hospital8,397FTE
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City SchoolsSchool district1,925FTE
- Fleet Feet Sports Development CompanyFootwear, specialty sports, stores1,146
- Orange County SchoolsSchool district1,065FTE
- J StreetAthletic equipment and supply stores1,021
- Industrial Connections & SolutionsRelays, electrical and electronic, manufacturing765
- Sports EndeavorsCustomer service call centers429
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 78 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,312 people in all across the county; Efland has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Efland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Orange County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Efland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Efland$379,438
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Efland 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Efland16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Efland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Efland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.