Enfield, North Carolina.
Typical home $89,402 (-3.7% in a year). Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$199 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,443 -4%
- $92,845$89,402 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,392 -6%
- $94,794$89,402 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.
- Enfield$469
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Enfield, NC fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina
Enfield is a town of 1,865 people in Halifax County. Unemployment in Halifax County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Halifax 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Enfield is a small town in Halifax County, in the northeastern part of North Carolina. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the state's typical level. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month and cool days that still stay above freezing at midday, while July brings hot summer afternoons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Halifax County, some of the largest workplaces are ECU Health North Hospital, Reser's Fine Foods and Roanoke Rapids City Schools. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Gaston is a reservoir, also a longer drive away. The Warren County Fire Tower is a tourist attraction in the same longer-drive range.
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- 705households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Halifax County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Halifax County had 15,111 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roanoke Rapids Airport weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halifax County
- ECU Health North HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical705
- Reser's Fine FoodsSalads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing704
- Halifax Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital465FTE
- Smurfit Westrock Kraft PaperPaper mills437
- Roanoke Rapids City SchoolsSchool district372FTE
- Halifax County SchoolsSchool district349FTE
- PCB Piezotronics HalifaxConnectors, electronic, manufacturing324
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters281
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,410 people in all across the county; Enfield has one of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Enfield’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 Halifax County and the Roanoke Rapids, NC metro.
Enfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Enfield$89,402
- 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.
- Enfield13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Enfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Enfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.