Ellerbe, North Carolina.
Typical home $134,697 (+1.9% in a year). Rockingham, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,485 +2%
- $132,212$134,697 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,145 +14%
- $118,552$134,697 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.
- Ellerbe$707
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Ellerbe, NC rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ellerbe, Richmond County, North Carolina
Ellerbe is a town of 864 people in Richmond County. Unemployment in Richmond County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richmond 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ellerbe is a very small town in Richmond County, and most of the people who live here know one another by sight. Homes are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county sit below those of most of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is a fairly long one, so many residents drive some distance each day.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehouse jobs close behind. Across Richmond County, the largest workplaces include Perdue Foods, Richmond County Schools and Richmond Memorial Hospital. The county has fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Blewett Falls Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to Uwharrie National Forest, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and to Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeological site. Winters are cool with only a little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls fairly evenly through the year.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Richmond County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richmond County had 13,571 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Springs Wnw weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richmond County
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,136
- Richmond County SchoolsSchool district939FTE
- Richmond Memorial HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical491
- Richmond Community CollegeTwo-year college348
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters310
- Plastek GroupJars, plastics, manufacturing297
- Cavco Industries321991212
- Elevate TextilesBroadwoven fabrics weaving181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,437 people in all across the county; Ellerbe has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ellerbe’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 Richmond County and the Rockingham, NC metro.
Ellerbe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ellerbe$134,697
- 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.
- Ellerbe9
Zip codes with a Ellerbe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ellerbe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.