Eure, North Carolina.
Typical home $248,776 (+9.5% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$810 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,528 +9%
- $227,248$248,776 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,375 +50%
- $166,401$248,776 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.
- Eure$1,306
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Eure, NC rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eure, Gates County, North Carolina
The Census does not count Eure on its own, so the figures here are Gates County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,333 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Gates County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gates 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eure is a small community in Gates County, in the northeastern corner of North Carolina. The county's residents are older on average than the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by the people who own them, a larger share than across most of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the nation, and winters are cold, though snow is rare. Summers are hot, and rain falls heavily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, retail and the building trades. Jobs in the county grew slightly over the last year, and fewer people are out of work than a year earlier. Commutes are longer than in most of the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Meherrin River runs a short drive away and suits anyone who enjoys time on the water. Merchants Millpond State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area of woods and water. The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge lies a longer drive off and is a protected wetland.
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- 4,192households
- 47.6median age
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Gates County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gates County had 1,428 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 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murfreesboro weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gates County
- Gates County SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Gates Health and RehabSkilled nursing facilities100
- Great Southern Wood PreservingSawmills81
- Gates HouseAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Gates 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 Gates County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Eure home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eure$248,776
- 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.
Zip codes with a Eure address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eure — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.