Ennice, North Carolina.
Typical home $222,806 (+2.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$657 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,139 +2%
- $217,668$222,806 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,493 +23%
- $181,314$222,806 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.
- Ennice$1,169
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Ennice, NC rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ennice, Alleghany County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Ennice on its own, so the figures here are Alleghany County's. Half the county's households earn more than $47,172 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Alleghany County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alleghany County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ennice is a small place in Alleghany County, in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina. Across the county, residents are older than most Americans, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes sit below the national typical level, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold with freezing nights, summers are warm, and the area gets plenty of rain and snowmelt over the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops and professional services employ most of the county's residents. Unemployment across the county is low and has come down over the past year, while the number of jobs dipped slightly over the most recent year. Relatively few people work from home, so most commute to their jobs.
Things to do. The Blue Ridge Music Center, a museum, is a short drive away. Big Spring Bog Natural Area Preserve, a protected area, is also a short drive off, as is the Fisher River, which is good for a walk along its banks.
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- 5,177households
- 52.6median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Alleghany County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alleghany County had 3,404 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Galax Wtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alleghany County
- Bottomley Evergreens & FarmsVegetable and potato farming, vegetable dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production625
- Alleghany County SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 36Spinning yarn from purchased fiber213
- Lotus Village Center for Nursing and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities130
- Amano Pioneer EclipseFloor polishes and waxes manufacturing118
- NapcoFolding boxes made from purchased paperboard90
- Alleghany Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,314 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alleghany County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Alleghany County.
Ennice home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ennice$222,806
- 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.
- Ennice10
Zip codes with a Ennice address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ennice — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.